BIRTH & Educational Achievements.

Shaykh Amin al-Hasanat was born in Bhera, Punjab, on 25th Rajab 1369 AH (9th May 1950). His father is the late Justice Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (ra). Following family tradition, Shaykh Amin al-Hasanat began learning the holy Qur’an at the tender age of four and half years and completed the memorisation of the entire Qur’an at an early age. After memorising the holy Qur’an, within one year he completed all the classes of primary school and in the next three months completed the three years of middle school. After spending a year at Sadiqabad (district Bahawalpur), he returned and entered the ninth grade of Government High School Bhera.
He completed matriculation in 1968 gaining first division. Following matriculation he completed the traditional Islamic sciences and disciplines of dars nizami (jurisprudence, Qur’anic exegesis, prophetic tradition, language and grammar, literature and rhetoric, logic, etc.) within six years at DMG Bhera. He studied the intensive course on hadith literature with his noble father and also Shaykh al-Hadith Muhammad Mi’raj al-Islam.