Zakariyya Kandhlawi (3 February 1898 – 24 May 1982) was a traditionalist Sunni scholar and an authority in the study of hadith during mid-twentieth-century India.

He was also known as Sheikh al-Hadith and was an ideologist of Tablighi Jamaat.

After completing his studies, he became a teacher at Mazahir Uloom in 1917.

During this period he collaborated with Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri on Badhl al-Majhud, which was the foundation of his lifelong study of Hadith.

[3] His Fada'il series has been translated into multiple languages and served as resources for the Tablighi Jamaat.