Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (10 March 1884 – 11 January 1946; Arabic, Pashto and Persian: Urdu: محمد میان منصور انصاري), was a leader and a political activist of the Indian independence movement.

[citation needed] He joined the Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul in December 1915, and remained in Afghanistan until the end of the war.

[citation needed] He was one of the most active and prominent members of the faction of the Indian Freedom Movement led by Muslim clergy who were chiefly from the Darul Uloom Deoband.

But he decided to remain at Kabul, where he began a programme teaching and translating Tafsir Sheikh Mahmudul Hassan Deobandi (known as Kabuli Tafseer).

[citation needed] Ansāri wrote following books:[5] In 1946, Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari turned seriously ill and subsequently died on 11 January 1946 at Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan and was buried there.