His Eminence Shaykh ul Islam  Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has received a large number of authorities (asanid) and permissions (ijazah) for the transmission of knowledge of hadith  tafsir  fiqh  tasawwuf and other classical Islamic sciences from numerous great pillars of the Muslim world  widely acknowledged as the fountains of Islamic knowledge in the last century back to the classical scholars and great Imams of hadith of the past up to the Holy Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him)