Abu Turab al-Zahiri

Al-Ẓāhirī’s contributions to Islamic jurisprudence, poetry, and biographical evaluation have left a lasting impact on the field.

[4] Abu Turab traveled extensively in pursuit of Islamic manuscripts, which he often copied by hand due to a lack of resources.

He eventually ended up in Egypt, where he earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Al-Azhar University,[3] and was also a student of fellow Hadith specialist Ahmad Muhammad Shakir.

Prevented from pronouncing the Muslim testimony of faith due to aphasia, Abu Turab died on his bed pointing toward the sky instead.

Although he was fluent in Persian and Urdu and conversational in multiple Languages of India, most of his written work was in Arabic.