Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889-1972) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the Principal of Madrasa Shahi, and the sixth President of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind.
Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad studied Quran with his mother and Persian with family elders.
[1] In 1908, he entered the Darul Uloom Deoband and studied Daura Hadith (the final class) in two years instead of one, as per the instructions of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.
[2] Ahmad began teaching at the Darul Uloom Deoband and later went to the Madrasa Shahi in Shawwal 1339 AH, where he served for 48 years.
[5] He was appointed the senior hadith professor (Shaykh al-Hadith) at the Darul Uloom Deoband following the death of Hussain Ahmed Madani in 1957.