Muhammad Muhsin Khan

He is Dr. Muhammad Muhsin ibn Muhyid-deen bin Ahmad al-Essa al-Afghani. He is from the famous Afghani tribe al-Khoashki al-Jamandi located southeast of the city Kandahar in a valley called Arghastan. His grandfathers migrated from Afghanistan escaping from the tribal wars and strife. He was born in the year 1345H in a city of the Punjab Province in Pakistan called Qasur.

He gained most of his education in this city, then attended the University of Punjab in Lahore and gained a degree in medicine and surgery. After working in the university’s hospital he traveled to England and gained a Diploma of Chest Diseases in four years from the University of Wales. Then the doctor went to Saudi Arabia during the time of King Abdul-Aziz, رحمه الله, and worked in the Ministry of Health for fifteen years while living in Taa’if and also serving as the director of of Al-Sadad Hospital for Chest Disease. Afterwards he moved to al-Madinah as the Chief of the Department of Chest Disease in the King’s Hospital. Lastly he worked as Director in the Hospital of the Islamic University in al-Madinah.

The doctor had a dream in which he had a vision of the Prophet Muhammad, صلى عليه و سلم رحمه الله and this inspired him to pursue a project to benefit the Sunnah and the Muslims, so he embarked upon translating Sahih al-Bukhari into English. This took twelve years and then with the aid of Shaikh Muhammad Taqi ud-deen al-Hilaali رحمه الله he also went on to translate into English the Noble Qur’an and al-Lu’lu wal-Marjan with the official approval of Shaikh Bin Baz and Shaikh Umar Muhammad Fullata رحمهما الله.

Books by the Doctor translated into English:

• Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur’an in the English Language

• Translation of the Meanings of Sahih al-Bukhari

• Summarized Sahih al-Bukhari

• al-Lu’lu wal-Marjan (Pearls and Corals)

• The Road to Paradise