Muftī Ḥamzah ʿImrān Khān (spelled as Humza I. Khan) was born and raised in Melbourne. His parents hail from Peshawar, Pakistan and migrated to Australia in the 90’s. By lineage, they are Pathan.

Since an early age, the Shaykh was exposed to an Islamic environment where scholars and pious people would frequent visits to their locality and home. This had a great effect on the Shaykh and became the catalyst for his pursuit of the Sacred Sciences. There would be regular discussions on the Sīrah of the Prophet ﷺ, the previous Anbiyā’ ʿalayhimussalām and the Ṣaḥābah raḍiyAllāhu ʿanhum in his home. In the time where cassettes were the norm for listening to the Qur’ān, the Shaykh frequented listening to al-Shaykh Sudais and al-Shaykh Shuraim until many cassettes burnt out. Just by listening to these cassettes, the Shaykh had almost memorised the last two ajzā’ (pl. juz’) of the Holy Qur’ān at the tender age of 5.

At age 6, the Shaykh joined the Ḥifẓ program at Darul Ulum College of Victoria and completed his memorisation of the Holy Qur’ān at age 9 in 2005. Thereafter, he spent a year in revision as per the Eastern curriculum of memorising the Qur’ān until 2006. In the year 2007, the Shaykh joined the ʿĀlimiyyah program at the same institute and studied there till he graduated in 2013. There, the Shaykh studied the sciences of the Arabic Language: al-Naḥw, al-Ṣarf, al-Balāghah, al-Imlā’ and al-Adab al-ʿArabī, the Sciences of Ḥadīth: Uṣūl al-Ḥadīth and Riwāyah and Dirāyah of Ḥadīth, Uṣūl al-Fiqh, al-Fiqh, al- ʿAqīdah, al-Tajwīd, ʿUlūm al-Qur’ān and Manṭiq.

Given the short period at the institute, the Shaykh would study privately with his teachers and spent his time at home reading other works. He also memorised many mutūn (short texts) in the sciences like al-ʿAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, al-ʿAqīdah al-Nasafiyyah, al- Mandhūmah al-Bayqūniyyah, Nukhbah al-Fikar, much of Taysīr Muṣtalaḥ al-Ḥadīth, al-Arbaʿūn al-Nawawiyyah, Zād al-Ṭālibīn, some Abwābs of Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, Tuḥfah al-Aṭfāl, a large portion of al-Alfiyyah ibn Mālik, Qaṣīdah al-Burdah, Qaṣīdah Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr, Diwān al-Imām al-Ṣhāfiʿī etc.

In 2014, the Shaykh concentrated on completing his high school and in 2015 he travelled to Pakistan and studied al-Takhaṣṣuṣ fi al-Fiqh al-Islāmī (Specialisation in Islamic Jurisprudence) for 2 years in the renowned institute of Jāmiʿah al-ʿUlūm al-Islāmiyyah, ʿAllāmah Binnori Town, Karachi and graduated in 2017.

In the years that followed, the Shaykh continued his learning and hence achieved a great deal in the other fields of the Islamic Sciences.

The following information will shed light on it:

▪ Completed a Bachelors in Islamic Studies at ISRA via Charles Sturt University, Victoria.

▪ Completed a Diploma in Ḥadīth Sciences at Cordoba Academy with al-Shaykh al- Muḥaddith Muḥammad Daniel al-Muhājir al-Dimaṣhqi.

▪ Studied and received ijāzah (license to teach) in ʿAṣhrah al-Ṣughrā in the science of al-Qirā’āt (Variant Readings) with al-Qārī’ ʿUthmān Khan. Similarly, he studied al-ʿAṣhr al-Kubrā with him.

▪ Read the Qur’ān fully with the possessors of the highest chains in al-ʿAṣhr al-Ṣughrā in the world, namely:

1. Al-Shaykh Yūnus Ghalbān. He read to him the Qirā’ah of ʿĀṣim in the riwāyah of Ṣhuʿbah and Ḥafṣ by memory.

2. Al-Shaykh Miṣbāḥ Ibrāhim al-Shaykh. He read to him the Qur’ān fully in al-Ṣughrā, in the form of Jamʿ bil taziʿah, in the Qirā’āt of the 10 Imāms. He also read to him the Qur’ān fully, ifrādan, in the Qirā’ahs of Nafiʿ (once in the riwāyah of Qālūn and then again in Warṣh), Ibn Kathīr, Abū ʿAmr, Ibn ʿĀmir, ʿĀṣim, Ḥamzah, al-Kisā’ī, Abū Jaʿfar, Yaʿqūb and Khalaf al- ʿĀṣhir.

▪ Read (some) and received ijāzah (for the rest) in al-Qirā’āt al-Arbaʿah al-Zā’idah from al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ṭawwab Riḍwān. He also read and studied al-Qirā’āt al-Arbaʿah al-Zā’idah again with al-Shaykh ʿUmar Khan.

▪ Received ijāzāt (licences) in Ḥadīth and other sciences from almost 200 scholars, including some of the world’s leading scholars, some of which are:

Al-Muftī ʿUbaiduRaḥmān al-Dīrī, al-Muftī Munīb Aḥmad, al-Shaykh al-Muḥaddith al- Musnid Muḥammad Abū Bakr Daniel, Al-Shaykh al-Faqīh Jalāluddīn al-Jamālī (110+ in age), al-Shaykh FadluRahmān al-Bihārī (+90 in age), al-Shaykh ʿAbdurahmān al-Kettānī, al-Shaykh Thanā’ullāh Khan al-Lāhorī, al-Shaykh Ghulāmullāh al-Rahmatī, al-Shaykh Ḥasan Ḥaydar al-Wā’ilī al-Muḥaddith al-Hāfidh, al-Shaykh al-Muftī Muḥammad Taqī al-ʿUthmānī, al-Shaykh al-Muḥaddith ʿAbdul Ḥalīm al-Chishtī, al-Shaykh al-Muʿammar Waliyyul Ḥaqq al-Ṣiddīqī, al-Shaykh Muḥammad Mutīʿ al- Ḥāfiẓ, al-Shaykhah Umm Ibrahīm al-Kanākirī al-Sāliḥiyyah and many others.

▪ Possesses the highest chains in the world via ijāzah from the following four scholars:

1. Al-Shaykh Musnid al-Dunyā ʿAbduraḥmān al-Kettānī

2. Al-Shaykh Muḥammad Abū Bakr al-Ḥibshī

3. Al-Shaykh Nūrul Ḥasan al-Kandhelwī

4. Al-Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Nadawī

▪ Possesses one of the highest chains of samāʿah in the books of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhāri, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, al-Jāmi’ al-Kabīr li al-Tirmidhī etc.

▪ In Tafsīr, the Shaykh studied with al-Shaykh Ismāʿīl al-Ḥarasī, the student of the world renowned Mufassir, the late al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ṣābūnī. He also studied many parts of the Tafsīr of the Qur’ān with his dear teacher, al-Muftī ʿUbaiduRaḥmān, who had studied Tafsīr ten times, taught it numerous times and was a Ḥafīẓ of the different Islamic sciences. He also read, heard, and received ijazah for the full Tafsīr al-Jalālayn from several scholars, one of them being the Mufassir al-Shaykh ‘Umar al- Masallātī.

Currently, he is still further studying Hadīth, Fiqh, ʿIlm al-Akhlāq etc. with scholars privately.

The Shaykh has been teaching the Islamic sciences on different levels since 2017. Currently, he is teaching Mukhtaṣar Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr (Tafseer), Ṣharḥ Ma’ānī al-Āthār (Ḥadīth), Sunan al-Nasā’ī (Ḥadīth), Sunan Ibn Mājah (Ḥadīth), Miṣhkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (Ḥadīth), al-Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī (Fiqh), al-’Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah (Aqeedah) with commentary and Durūs al-Balāghah (Balaaghah) at different institutions.

We ask Allāh ta’ālā to accept his efforts, allow him to emulate the true scholars, save him from fitan and guide him and all the Muslims. Āmīn.