Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (Urdu: احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 March 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar.
[citation needed] Zaheer was born in 1945 in Sialkot into a deeply religious trading Punjabi family of Shaikh-Sethi and was formally educated in Ahl-e-Hadith establishments in Gujranwala and Faisalabad before earning Masters in Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and Persian at the University of the Punjab and further continuing his studies in Islamic law at the University of Madinah under many scholars.
[citation needed] In March 1986, Zaheer founded his political party Jamiat Ahle Hadith.
[2] While Zaheer was giving a speech, a bomb which had been planted in the flowers on the stage exploded, severely injuring him.
His funeral prayer was led by Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz in Medina, Saudi Arabia, attended by millions including the country's main Islamic scholars, and he was buried in Al-Baqi cemetery.