Darul Ifta, Darul Uloom Azaadville

The fatwa department of Darul Uloom Azaadville (Madrasah Arabia Islamia), a Deobandi Darul Uloom about 30 minutes outside Johannesburg with 600+ students and ~35 ustadhs. The madrasah grew from one Alim student in Germiston (1972), was formally constituted after mashwarah in Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi's khanqah in Stanger (1981) and moved to 1 Azaad Avenue; it runs a Darul Ifta, publication dept (350+ titles, An-Nasihah journal) and Khanqah Akhtari. Fatawa are Hanafi and checked/approved by Mufti Muhammed Saeed Motara; the site holds ~1,900 published fatawa (388 listing pages). Under the stewardship of Moulana Abdul Hamid (Ishaq).

Scholars

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  Mufti Muhammed Saeed Motara

  Head Mufti, Darul Ifta; Shaykh al-Hadith (teaches Sahih al-Bukhari), Darul Uloom Azaadville

  Khalifa of Faqihul Ummah Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi. Completed hifz in Hardoi under Maulana Abrarul Haq, the Alim course at Jamia Islamia Ta'leemuddeen, Dabhel (India), and Ifta at Deoband under Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi. Heads the Darul Ifta at Madrasah Arabia Islamia, teaches Bukhari and other Hadith/Fiqh texts, and holds a monthly Islahi majlis (first Saturday, Asr–Fajr) and a Ramadan i'tikaf programme at the Azaadville Jamia Masjid; every published fatwa on iftadua.co.za is 'Checked and Approved' by him.

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  Moulana Abdul Hamid (Ishaq)

  Principal / steward of Darul Uloom Azaadville (not a Darul Ifta signatory)

  Named by the madrasah as the institution's head ('under the stewardship of Hazrat Moulana Abdul Hamid'); described elsewhere as Principal of Darul Uloom Azaadville and Khalifa of Hakim Muhammad Akhtar. Included for institutional context only — the fatwas themselves are approved by Mufti Motara.

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