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  "ar": "محمد إلياس غمن",
  "en": "Muhammad Ilyas Ghumman",
  "ur": "محمد الیاس گھمن"
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  "ar": "عالم دين باكستاني من سرغودها في البنجاب، تصفه المصادر بأنه عالم حنفي ومناظر وخطيب؛ يرأس مركز أهل السنة والجماعة في سرغودها ويدير خدمات أحناف الإعلامية التي تنشر دروسه ومحاضراته.",
  "en": "Pakistani scholar, debater and preacher from Sargodha, Punjab, described in prose sources as a Hanafi scholar; he heads Markaz Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat in Sargodha and directs Ahnaf Media Services, the media arm that publishes his lessons and sermons.",
  "ur": "سرگودھا، پنجاب سے تعلق رکھنے والے پاکستانی عالم دین، مناظر اور خطیب؛ مرکز اہل سنت والجماعت سرگودھا کے سربراہ اور احناف میڈیا سروسز کے منتظم۔"
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  "earliest": 1969.277192550155,
  "latest": 1969.2799304571304
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   "note": "Born 12 April 1969 in Sargodha (Urdu article: Chak 87 Janubi, Sargodha district); the date is given by both the English and the Urdu Wikipedia articles. Hijri year derived from the Gregorian date.",
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    "value": "Muhammad Ilyas Ghumman"
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    "value": "محمد إلياس غمن"
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    "value": "sunni-hanafi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "Settled on prose attestation for Ghumman himself in two independent texts: English Wikipedia describes him as 'a leading Hanafi Maturidi theologian', and the Urdu Wikipedia article opens by describing him as a Deobandi Hanafi scholar. His institutional roles (head of Markaz Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat; chief executive of Ahnaf Media Services) are office/milieu and were not used as evidence. The English article's infobox further associates him with the Deobandi movement, the Maturidi creed and the Chishti order; infobox data is not prose attestation, so no sufi value is recorded. The English article's prose also styles him a 'Sufi' in a single passing mention; one text does not settle a value in this lane, so that reading is likewise preserved here only.",
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   "preacher",
   "khatib",
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   "note": "Born 12 April 1969 in Sargodha (Urdu article: Chak 87 Janubi, Sargodha district); the date is given by both the English and the Urdu Wikipedia articles. Hijri year derived from the Gregorian date.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Writer C web research for wave 193: English and Urdu Wikipedia articles and vidIQ channel statistics, read in full on 5 November 2026. Reach is stated through Ahnaf Media Services, the media service he directs as chief executive, per the lane's organisation-channel precedent.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Wonder)",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "حياته وأعماله",
     "markdown": "حفظ القرآن الكريم في غكهر مندي، وأكمل منهج الدرس النظامي في كراتشي وفيصل آباد، ودرس التفسير على محمد سرفراز خان صفدر في جامعة نصرة العلوم بغوجرانواله.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur} وتذكر ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية أنه درس أيضًا في الجامعة البنورية بكراتشي، وأنه تلميذ العالم الصوفي عزيز الرحمن هزاروي الذي منحه الخلافة سنة 2014.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en} ويرأس مركز أهل السنة والجماعة في سرغودها، حيث يعمل شيخًا للحديث ومديرًا للمركز، وقد أسس المركز العالمي لأهل السنة والجماعة في المدينة نفسها.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en} ويُذكر أيضًا بوصفه أمير الاتحاد العالمي لأهل السنة والجماعة.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur} ويعرفه محبوه بلقب «متكلم الإسلام».{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}\n\nوهو المدير والرئيس التنفيذي لخدمات أحناف الإعلامية، وهي الجهة الإعلامية التي تنشر دروسه ومحاضراته.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur} ومن مؤلفاته كتاب «جي هن فقه حنفي قرآن وحديث كا نچوڑ هے» (2014) الذي كتبه دفاعًا عن المذهب الحنفي، وتُعد دروس القرآن من أبرز أعماله المسجلة.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اعتقالات موثقة في التقارير",
     "markdown": "تذكر ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، مستندة إلى تقارير صحفية باكستانية في صحف داون وذي إكسبريس تريبيون ونوائي وقت، أن غمن اعتُقل سنة 2005 بتهمة التورط المزعوم في مقتل مفوض سرغودها سيد تجمل عباس، واعتُقل مرة أخرى سنة 2006 في قضية مقتل رجل الدين الشيعي بشير حسين بخاري.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en} وتذكر المقالة نفسها اعتقالًا آخر سنة 2013 أثناء جولته في جنوب البنجاب، وإطلاق سراحه من الإقامة الجبرية في أغسطس 2015، وحظرًا فرضته إدارة إسلام آباد على إلقائه الخطب خلال شهر محرم في أكتوبر 2015.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجمهور",
     "markdown": "تدير خدمات أحناف الإعلامية التي يرأسها قناة يوتيوب (@ahnafmediaservices) بلغ عدد مشتركيها 620,000 مشترك ومجموع مشاهداتها 82,111,110 مشاهدة وعدد مقاطعها 7,186 مقطعًا حتى 5 نوفمبر 2026.{cite:vidiq-ahnaf-media-services}"
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   "updated": "2026-11-06"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Life and work",
     "markdown": "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.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur} 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.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en} 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.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en} He is also named as amir of the Aalmi Ittihad Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur} Admirers know him by the honorific Mutakallim-i Islam, \"the theologian of Islam\".{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}\n\nHe is the Director and chief executive of Ahnaf Media Services, the media service that publishes his lessons and sermons.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-ur} 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.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reported arrests",
     "markdown": "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.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en} 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.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-ghuman-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Audience",
     "markdown": "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.{cite:vidiq-ahnaf-media-services}"
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