Khalid Mahmud

Maḥmūd studied Islamic Sciences from Zakariyya Kandhlawi, Shamsul Haq Afghani, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, and Badre Alam Meerthi. He received his PhD degree in 1970 from the University of Birmingham.{{cite web |title=Profile of The Islamic Academy of Manchester |url=http://www.islamicacademy.eu/about/ |website=www.islamicacademy.eu |accessdate=15 July 2019}} He also completed his master's degrees in Arabic, Persian, Philosophy & Theology, also achieving an LLB in Law.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

He served as a senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (Shariat Appellate Bench).{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-12-2003_pg7_27 |title=SC Shariat Bench to hear appeal on presidential remissions today |last=Kamran |first=Mohammad |date=3 December 2003 |work=Daily Times |accessdate=17 August 2010 |location=Pakistan |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020155016/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-12-2003_pg7_27 |archivedate=20 October 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }} He was also director of the Islamic Academy of Manchester UK.{{Cite web | url=http://www.islamicacademy.eu |title = The Islamic Academy of Manchester | Light – Righteousness – Wisdom}} He founded a purpose-built mosque, Gity Jamia Masjid, in Manchester.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Mahmood was the Shaykh-ul-Hadith of Jamia Ashrafia, Lahore, and the head of the Islamic Center Manchester.

In the UK during the 1960s, he worked with Asif Husain Farooqi and Yusuf Motala and worked alongside him (before establishing Dar-ul-Uloom Bury).{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

He travelled to over 50 countries in his lifetime with regard to his Islamic works, focusing on establishing the message relating to the Finality of the Prophethood. Manzoor Ahmad Chinioti accompanied Mahmood on many of the travels relating to these works; most notably spending a 6-month period in South Africa in the 1970s whilst contention relating to Khatm-e-Nabuwwat was rife - soon after the opposing view began to be spread in these areas.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Throughout his lifetime, Mahmood established many Masājid and Islamic centres across the world, especially in poverty-stricken areas - for example within Ghana, Gambia, and many throughout South-East Asia, whilst also setting-up many other charities in these areas to provide aid in the form of orphanages, health centres, and food banks.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Mahmud wrote a detailed study on the Barelvi school of thought entitled, Mut̤ālaʻah-yi Brelvīyat : ek tārīk̲h̲ī, fikrī, aur taḥqīqī jāʼizah. He wrote his doctoral thesis comparing the attitudes of Muhammad al-Bukhari, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, and their co-religionists on the basic doctrines of Islam.{{cite web |title=Maḥmūd, K̲h̲ālid (Judge) |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no00088244/ |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=28 October 2022}} His other books include:

• Ās̲ārulḥadīs̲
• Ās̲āruliḥsān fī sairissulūk val ʻirfān
• Ās̲āruttanzīl
• Dātā Ganj Bak̲h̲sh aur un kā ʻahd
• Faz̤āʼil-i ahl-i Bait Ṣaḥābah-i Kirām va tābiʻīn : Ṣaḥābah-i Karām, Ahl-i Bait
• Ḥaz̤rat Abū Bakr kā daur-i k̲h̲ilāfat
• The authenticity of Hadith

Khalid Maḥmūd died on 14 May 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom.{{Cite web | url=https://dailypakistan.com.pk/15-May-2020/1132625 | title=معروف عالم دین علامہ ڈاکٹر خالد محمود برطانیہ میں انتقال کرگئے| date=15 May 2020|language=ur-PK|website=Daily Pakistan}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110609034540/http://allamakhalidmahmood.com/ Allama Khalid Mahmood official website]

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