Chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Ahmad Shafi was buried at the Baitul Atiq Jame Mosque Graveyard on the premises of Hathazari madrassah in Chattogram on Saturday noon.

He died at the age of 103 at a hospital in Dhaka on Friday, just one day after he had resigned from his post of the director general of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Mueenul Islam Madrassah, well known as Hathazari Madrassah Chattogram, in the face of a student protest.

Shafi’s body reached the madrassah from Dhaka at around 8:55am, and after zuhr prayers, his namaz-e-janaza was held at around 2:15pm.

The janaza was led by Shafi’s eldest son Mohammad Yusuf Madani who is also the director of Pakhiyartila Qawmi Madrassah Rangunia.

Allama Shafi was the chairman of Bangladesh Qawmi Madrasah Education Board and a faction of the political party Islami Oikya Jote. He was popularly known as Boro Huzur.
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Since the morning, the madrassah premises were occupied by students and followers of Shafi. Hundreds of people thronged the madrassah premises from different areas of the country to attend the namaz-e-janaza.

Shafi was born in 1916 in Rangunia, Chattogram, and received his primary education from his family. Then he studied at Al-Jamiatul Arabiatul Islamiah, Ziri, for five to six months there.

He was admitted to Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Mueenul Islam in 1926 at the age of 10. In Hathazari Madrassah he studied for 10 years. Then Shafi went to Darul Uloom Deoband in India for higher studies in the field of Hadith and Tafsir.