Azizul Haque (Bengali: আজিজুল হক), also known as by his epithet Shaykh al-Hadith[3] was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, writer, and translator.

Azizul Haque was born in 1919, into a Bengali Muslim family of Qadis in the village of Bhirich Khan, Louhajang, Bikrampur, Bengal Presidency (now in Munshiganj District, Bangladesh).

He was then raised by his maternal grandmother in the nearby village of Kalma, where he began his initial primary education at the local mosque.

[7] In 1931, he followed Faridpuri to the newly established Ashraful Uloom Madrasa in Bara Katara, Dhaka where he studied for twelve years.

From 1940 to 1941, Haque studied books such as Tafsir al-Baydawi, Jami' al-Tirmidhi and Sahih al-Bukhari under Zafar Ahmad Usmani.

[9] In 1979, he taught Sahih al-Bukhari in the Department of Islamic Studies of University of Dhaka as a visiting professor and served there for three years.

[citation needed] In 2009, Azizul Haque and other Bengali Muslim scholars wrote a statement to the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, condemning terrorism and militancy committed in the name of Islam.