Muhammad Ilyas Ghumman

He memorised the Qur'an at Gakhar Mandi and completed the Dars-e-Nizami curriculum in Karachi and Faisalabad, studying Qur'anic exegesis under Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar at Jamia Nusrat-ul-Uloom in Gujranwala.¹ English Wikipedia records that he also studied at Jamia Binoria in Karachi and was a disciple of the Sufi scholar Azizur Rahman Hazarvi, who granted him khilafat in 2014.² He heads the Markaz Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat in Sargodha, where he serves as Shaykh al-Hadith and administrator, and he founded the Aalami Markaz Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat in the same city.¹² He is also named as amir of the Aalmi Ittihad Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat.¹ Admirers know him by the honorific Mutakallim-i Islam, "the theologian of Islam".²

He is the Director and chief executive of Ahnaf Media Services, the media service that publishes his lessons and sermons.²¹ His published works include Ji han Fiqah-i Hanafi Quran va Hadis ka nachor hai (2014), written in defence of the Hanafi school, and the Duroos-e-Quran lessons are listed among his notable works.²

English Wikipedia, citing Pakistani press reports in Dawn, The Express Tribune and Nawaiwaqt, records that Ghumman was arrested in 2005 over alleged involvement in the murder of Sargodha Division Commissioner Syed Tajamul Abbas, and arrested again in 2006 in connection with the murder of the Shia cleric Bashir Husain Bukhari.² The same article records a further arrest in 2013 while he was touring southern Punjab, his release from house arrest in August 2015, and a ban imposed by the Islamabad administration on his delivering sermons during Muharram in October 2015.²

Ahnaf Media Services, the media arm he directs, runs the YouTube channel @ahnafmediaservices, which had 620,000 subscribers, 82,111,110 total views and 7,186 videos as of 5 November 2026.³