Wallace Fard Muhammad (1877-1893? – ?) was a preacher and founder of the Black-nationalist movement the Nation of Islam (NOI), establishing its first mosque in Detroit, Michigan. He preached his distinctive version of Islam there for three years before mysteriously disappearing in 1934 and subsequently being deified by Elijah Muhammad.

Alternative names on record are numerous, among them David Ford-el, Wali Farad, Farrad Mohammed, W.D. Fard, and F. Mohammed Ali. Within the NOI he is generally known as Master Fard Muhammad.

According to FBI records, Fard (pronounced fuh-RAHD) Muhammad is identical to one Wallace Dodd Ford, also known as Wallace Dodd, whose birth is recorded by the FBI as February 25, 1891, of mixed European and Polynesian parentage. It is uncertain whether he was born in New Zealand or in Portland, Oregon, of parents who came from Hawaii. A recent researcher believes that Dodd was a New Zealander of half-Indian descent, born in 1893. Dodd was certainly in the United States by the 1920s, when he was arrested and imprisoned for drug offenses, serving three years in San Quentin between 1926 and 1929. Photographs and fingerprints of both men exist.

The NOI has, in the past, rejected this identification of Wallace Dodd with Wallace Fard Muhammad, interpreting it as part of a smear campaign. They also claim that he was born in 1877 (which would put him in his fifties when photographed), and that he came from Mecca. Elijah Muhammad—Fard Muhammad's student and successor—had this to say about his teacher, in his book, Message to the Blackman:

"Allah (God) came to us from the Holy City Mecca, Arabia, in 1930. He used the name Wallace D. Fard, often signing it W.D. Fard. In the third year (1933), He signed His name W.F. Muhammad, which stands for Wallace Fard Muhammad. He came alone. He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves, of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets, and of the civilizations of some of the planets other than earth."

Elijah Muhammad also challenged the Hearst Press, which had publicized the story, and offered 100,000 Dollars to anyone who could prove Wallace Fard was an alias of Wallace Dodd Ford. Hazel Ford, the former common-law wife of Wallace Dodd Ford, stepped forward with what she claimed was proof that Fard and Dodd were indeed one and the same. She also claimed to have a child fathered by Dodd/Fard. The money was never placed in escrow and the matter was dropped.

While the question of Fard's identity is controversial, the current NOI leader, Louis Farrakhan, does accept that Fard was imprisoned, insisting that this was because his preaching threatened the racist status quo, not because of any criminal acts.