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The following biographical entry draws almost exclusively from an Arabic piece composed by Mawlānā Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ʿAbd al-Aḥad, a graduate of Jāmiʿa Dār al-ʿUlūm, Karachi, and a former professor of Arabic literature and rhetoric at the Jāmiʿa Banūriyya ʿĀlamiyya. Mawlānā Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Shahīd al-Nuʿmānī (1950–2026) Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Shahīd al-Nuʿmānī was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, ḥadīth specialist, and academic who served for nearly five decades at the University of Karachi. Born in 1950 into a family with deep roots in the South Asian Islamic scholarly tradition, he combined a classical madrasa formation with modern university training, and occupied a distinctive position within the…