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Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi (مولانا سید صفدر حسین نجفی) was a scholar and religious leader.

Najafi was born in 1932 at Alipur, a tehsil of Muzaffargarh District in the Panjab province of Pakistan.^[1] He is the son of Syed Ghulam Sarwar Naqvi from a Naqvi Syed family.^[2] He was descended from Syed Jalal-ul-Din Surkhposh Bukhari (and his grandson Jahaniyan Jahangasht is buried in the Uch), who was from a branch of the scions of Imam Ali Naqi.^[1]

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• Madrasa Sadeqiya, Khanpur, Rahim Yar Khan District, Maulana Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra (1947) commentary of the Quran.
• Madrasa in Khangarh, Maulana Ahmed Hassan, Shara Jami, Qutbi and Shara Bab e Hadi Ashar (1949).
• Madrasa Bab un Najaf in village Jarra, Dera Ismail Khan, Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra

On 17 October 1951 he went to Najaf Ashraf.

• Kifaya, Rasael and Makasib for 4 years in Najaf Ashraf.
• Dars e kharij for one year.

His mentors in Najaf Ashraf were

• Grand Ayatollah Syed Muhsin ul-Hakim,
• Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Khoei,
• Allama Sheikh Muhammad Ali Afghani,
• Allama Syed Abul Qasim Rashti,
• Grand Ayatollah Agha Buzurg Tehrani (who gave him the certification (Ijaza) of the Hadith).
• Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Aal e Razi
• Sheikh ul Jamea Allama Akhtar Abbas Najafi.^[3]

After 5 years in the Holy City in 1956 Allama Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi returned to his homeland Pakistan.

Allama Najafi started a monthly Islamic magazine with the title of Al-Muntazar wrote 40 books on different topics and translated more than 60 books.

• Tafseer e Namoona^[4][5] the commentary of the Quran written by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, 27 volumes.^[6]
• Tafseer e Mauzooee, the topical commentary of the Quran written by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, 10 volumes.
• Tazkira tul Khawaas, written by Sibt ibn e Jaozi.
• Tozih ul Masail, written by Imam Khomaini "Tozih ul Masail".
• Hukumat e Islami, written by Imam Khomaini named "Wilayat e Faqeeh". (1972)^[7]
• Tafseer e Mauzooee, the topical commentary of the Quran written by Grand Ayatollah Ja‘far Sobhani, 14, volumes .^[8]

• Ahsan ul Maqaal, written by Sheikh Abbas Qumi "Muntahi ul Aamaal".
• Intekhaab Tabari, written by Ibn e Jurair Tabari.
• Sa'ada tul Abadia, written by Sheikh Abbas Qumi.
• Nafas ul Mahmoom, written by Sheikh Abbas Qumi.^[9]
• Wilayat e Faqeeh written by Ayatollah Hussain Ali Muntazeri 4 volumes.
• Madan ul Jawahir,
• Irshad ul Quloob, written by Allama Muhammad Baqir Majlasi
• Aqaed e Imamia, written by Sheikh Muhammad Raza Muzaffar Najafi.
• Barah Imami Shia aur Ahl ul Bayt (a.s),
• Aitraaf e Haqiqat,
• Ifadiat e Mahafel o Majalis ke Awamil,
• Risala tul Mawaiz,
• Hujjat e Isna Asharia,
• Shia Isna Asharia,
• Chehel (40) Hadith, written by Syed Ali Fani.
• Al Sibtan fi Maoqef e Hima,
• Mubadiat e Hukomat e Islami,
• Al Irshad, written by Sheikh Mufid, Named Tazkara tul Athar.
• Huqooq aur Islam,
• Jahad e Akbar,
• Markae Haq o Batil,
• Yazidi Firqah,
• Manasek e Hujj,
• Kitab e Ziaraat,
• Hodood o Ta'ziraat,
• Islami Jomhoriya par Aiterazaat, Deen o Aql ki Roshni main,
• Deen e Huq Aql ki Roshni main,
• Kitab al Saqifa,
• Hamary Aimma – Seerat e Aimma, 12 small booklets.
• Irfan ul Majalis,
• etc.^[10][11]

• Profiles of Intelligence, Brig. Syed A.I. Tirmazi, SI (M) P. 278 & 280, Bookseller: Amazing Books International, Delhi, India 1995.
• The Holy Qur'ãn in South Asia, (a bio-bibliographic study of translations of the Holy Qur'ãn in 23 South Asian languages) Author: Mofakhkhar Hussain Khan, Publisher: Dhaka : Bibi Akhtar Prakãs?ani, 2001.
• The madrasa in Asia, (political activism and transnational linkages) P. 132, Author: Farish Ahmad-Noor, Yåogåindar Sikkand, Martin van Bruinessen, Publisher: Amsterdam, NL : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.
• www.islamic-laws.com/marja/safdarhussain.htm
• Allama Syed Muhammad Yar Shah Najafi
• Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra
• Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi
• Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan (TJP)
• Allama Mufti Jafar Hussain
• Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi
• Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini

• Grand Ayatollah Bazurg Tehrani (1974–), Az-Zareeya ila Tasaaneef us-Shia (A List of Shia Books), Hawza Elmia Najaf Ashraf, Iraq.
• Aal ul Bayt Global Information Centre, Musaniffat-us-Shia (Shia Books), Aal ul Bayt Global Information Centre.
• Maulana Syed Hussain Arif Naqvi, Tazkarae Ulama e Imamia, Pakistan.
• Maulana Riaz Hussain Jafari, Mayyar-e-Mawaddat (Ayatollah Allama Syed Muhammad Yar Shah Najafi ki Majalis ka Majmoo'a), Idara Minhaj-us-Saalehin, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Maulana Riaz Hussain Jafari, tazkara-e-Mawaddat (Allama Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi ki Majalis ka Majmoo'a), Idara Minhaj-us-Saalehin, Lahore, Pakistan.

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