Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri

Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (Bengali: মুশাহিদ আহমদ বায়মপুরী, Arabic: مشاهد أحمد البايمفوري; 1907–1971) was a late-twentieth century Bengali Islamic Hadith scholar, teacher, writer, jurist, orator and politician. Often described by Bangladeshi scholars as the Bukhari of Bengal, and Shaykh al-Islam Bayampuri served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the professor of Hadith studies at Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah, the principal of Darul Hadith Kanaighat and the president of the Eastern Sylhet Independent Religious Arabic Madrasah Education Board. His numerous works, which covered a range of disciplines in Islamic literature such as Hadith, Tafsir and the political aspects of Islam, were written in the Arabic, Bengali and Urdu languages. Some of his books are part of syllabic studies in the city of Madinah and under the Independent Religious Board of Education.