Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (also written as Saʻīd Aḥmad Pālanpūrī) (1940 – 19 May 2020), was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author who served as Shaykh al-Hadith and Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband.
[9] Palanpuri joined Jamia Ashrafiya in Rander as a teacher in 1965 and taught there for about ten years.
[13][14] Pratibha Patil awarded Palanpuri the President's Certificate of Honour on the 64th Independence Day of India.
[15] Palanpuri maintained the view that the Indian Government's Scheme to Provide Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM) will end in fiasco.
[21][8][22] He was buried in a graveyard located in Oshiwara, Mumbai and very few people were allowed to attend his last rites due to the Covid-19 lockdown.