Who are the scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah that accept the celebration of Mawlid un-Nabī ﷺ as permissible or recommended?

They are the overwhelming majority of Ahl al-Sunnah. Just to mention some of them from the well known and established scholars from the hundreds ( ) are listed below, together with the title of their works where their position is stated:

❌ Individuals from living memory who prohibited it: Albāni, Bin Bāz, Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, Fawzān, Muqbil al-Wādi’ī, al-Munājid (creator of IslamQA), IslamWeb and YouTube celebrities like Zākir Naik, Menk and others.

✅ Scholars who permitted it and who were far greater and born long before those individuals from 21st century that prohibited it:

Al-Ḥanafī:
► Imām Qutb al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī, al-I’lām bi A’lām bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām

► Imām Muḥammad ibn Jār-Allāh ibn Zāhira, al-Jāmi’ al-Latīf

► Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dehlawī, Mā Thabata min al-Sunnah

► Shaykh Shāh ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Dehlawī, al-Durr al-Thamīn

► Shaykh Shāh Walī Allāh Dehlawī, Fuyūd al-Ḥaramayn

► Muftī ‘Inayāt Allāh Kākurawī, Tarīkh Ḥabīb Allāh

► Muftī Muḥammad Mazhar Allāh Dehlawī, Fatāwa Mazharī

► Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī, al-Mawrid al-Rāwī fī Mawlid al-Nabī

► Ḥāji Imdād Allāh Muḥājir al-Makkī, Shamā’im Imdādiyya

► Muḥaddith ‘Abd al-Ḥayy al-Lucknawī, Fatāwa ‘Abd al-Ḥayy

► Imām Aḥmad Ridā Khān, Fatāwa al-Ridwiyyah

► Shaykh Ismā’īl al-Ḥaqqī, Tafsīr Rūḥ al-Bayān

► ‘Allāmah Ibn ‘Ābideen ash-Shāmī, Jawāhi Rul Biḥār

Al-Mālikī:
► al-Ḥāfidh Ibn Diḥya al-Kalbī, al-Tanwīr fī Mawlid al-Bashīr al-Nadhīr

► Imām al-Turtūshī, Kitāb al-Ḥawādith wa al-Bid’ah (indirectly)

► Imām al-Faqīh Abū al-Tayyib Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sabtī (d. 695), as quoted by al-Adfāwī in al-Suyūtī’s Ḥusn al-Maqsad

► Imām Abū ‘Abd Allāh Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn ‘Abbād al-Nafzī, al-Rasā’il al-Kubrā

► Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Kattānī, Rawdat al-Jannat fī Mawlid Khātim al-Risālat, also quoted in al-Sakhāwī’s Subul al-Hudā

► Shaykh Nāsir al-Dīn ibn al-Tabbākh, quoted in al-Sakhāwī’s Subul al-Hudā

► Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ‘Alawī al-Makkī, al-Iḥtifāl bi Dhikrā al Mawlid

► Imām Muḥammad al-Jazūlī, Dalā’il al-Khayrāt

► Ibn Battūta al-Mālikī, ar-Riḥla

► Imām Muḥammad al-Zurqānī, Sharḥ al-Mawāhib al-Ladunniyah

Al-Shāfi’ī:
► Imām Abū Shāma, al-Bā’ith ‘alā inkār al-Bida’ wa al-Ḥawādith

► Imām Shams al-Dīn al-Jazarī, ‘Urf al-Ta’rīf bi al-Mawlid al-Sharīf

► Imām Shams al-Dīn ibn Nāsir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī, al-Mawrid al-Sādī fī Mawlid al-Hādī; Jāmi’ al-Athār fī Mawlid al-Nabī al-Mukhtār; al-Lafz al-Rā’iq fī
Mawlid Khayr al-Khalā’iq

► Imām Zayn al-Dīn al-‘Irāqī, al-Mawrid al-Hanī fī al-Mawlid al-Sāni

► Imām al-Dhahabī, Siyar A’lām al-Nubalā’ (indirectly)

► Imām Ibn Kathīr, Kitāb Mawlid an-Nabī, and al-Bidāya p. 272-273.

► Imām Ibn Ḥajr al-‘Asqalānī, as quoted by al-Suyūtī in al-Ḥāwī.

► Imām al-Qastallānī, al-Mawāhib al-Ladunniyya

► Imām al-Sakhāwi, Subul al-Hudā, also quoted in al-Qārī, al-Mawrid al-Rāwī

► Imām Ibn Ḥajr al-Haytamī, Fatāwa al-Ḥadithiyya; al-Ni’mat al-Kubrā ‘alā al-‘Ālam fī Mawlid Sayyid Waladi Ādam; Taḥrīr al-Kalām fī al-Qiyām ‘inda Dhikr Mawlid Sayyid al-Anam; Tuḥfat al-Akhyār fī Mawlid al-Mukhtār

► Imām Wajīh al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Zabīdī al-Dayba’ (d. 944), Kitāb al-Mawlid.

► Imām Zāhir al-Dīn Ja’far al-Misrī, quoted in al-Sakhāwī’s Subul al-Hudā

► Imām Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sāliḥī al-Shāmī, quoted in al-Sakhāwī’s Subul al-Hudā

► Kamāl al-Dīn al-Adfāwī, al-Tāli’ al-Sa’īd

► Imām al-Suyūtī, Ḥusn al-Maqsad fi ‘Amal al-Mawlid in his al-Hāwī li al-Fatāwī

► Imām Abū Zur’a al-‘Irāqī, as quoted in Muḥammad ibn Siddīq al-Ghumārī’s Tashnīf al-Adhān

► Shaykh Yūsuf bin Ismā’īl an-Nabhāni, Jawāhir al-Biḥār

► Imām Taqī ud-Dīn as-Subkī

al-Ḥanbalī:
►Imām Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, Mawlid al-‘Arūs

►►Many Non Madhāhib scholars has also mentioned it as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, Ibn Taymiyya, Iqtidā’ al-Sirāt al-Mustaqīm (in some cases) etc…