Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria

Muhammad Zakaria was quoted in June 2021 as criticizing Abu Taha Muhammad Adnan, another young Islamic speaker, for his religious teachings. Both of them posted videos on YouTube and Facebook targeting each other.

He was admitted to the Arabic department of Dhaka University in 1986. But while studying in the second year of Dhaka University, he got admission in Islamic University of Madinah. So in 1989 he was admitted to the Shariah department of the Islamic University of Madinah. And he jointly placed fifth in the combined graduation or honors examinations of the Shariah department. He graduated from the University of Medina with a degree in Aqeedah. After graduation, he completed his PhD on comparative theology under the supervision of Abdullah Al-Gudayyan.

Abu Bakr Zakariya received his early education from his father. He passed from Dhanusara Islamia Madrasa c. in 1982 and passed Alim in 1984. Then in 1986 he passed Fazil from the same madrasa. He was admitted to Dhaka Alia Madrasah in 1988. He was first in the first class in Kamil's combined merit list.

Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (Bengali: আবু বকর মুহাম্মাদ যাকারিয়া; born 1969) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, media personality, professor, writer, preacher and Islamic speaker. He is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Fiqh and Legal Studies at Islamic University Kushtia. He has been discussing Islamic programs and Islam in various newspapers and magazines on various Bangladeshi television channels, including NTV, Peace TV and so on. He also giving sermons at various Islamic mahfils and pre-Jumu'ah prayers Khutba at various places. His "Tafsir Zakaria" has been published by King Fahad Printing Press, the official publication of Saudi Arabia, which is appreciated by the Muslim readers of Bengal.

Muhammad Zakaria Majumdar was born in 1969 to a Bengali Muslim family of Majumdars in the village of Dhanusara in the Chauddagram subdivision of East Pakistan's Comilla district. His father, Muhammad Siddiqur Rahman, was the principal of the local Dhanusara Islamia Madrasa.