130 results for “shafii”
Clear filterThe greatest scholar of Egypt in his era, whom ash-Shafi'i considered more knowledgeable than Malik in fiqh. Al-Layth ...
A leading muhaddith and scholar of Mecca, teacher of ash-Shafii and many hadith masters.
A leading muhaddith and teacher of Ahmad ibn Hanbal and ash-Shafii.
Founder of the Shafii school and pioneer of usul al-fiqh with his foundational wo...
Founder of the Shafi'i school and pioneer of usul al-fiqh (principles of jurisprud...
Known as the Sayyid of the Sufis and the master of sober Sufism (as-sahw). His emphasis on grounding spiritual experience in the Shari'ah made him a model for o
A leading muhaddith and author of Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah, called the Imam of Imams.
Author of Maalim as-Sunan, one of the earliest commentaries on Sunan Abu Dawud.
A leading Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist who compiled the most comprehensive record of al-Ash...
A prominent Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist of Nishapur. A contemporary of al-Baqillani who cont...
A major Shafii muhaddith, author of as-Sunan al-Kubra, one of the largest ...
Author of Maalim at-Tanzil (tafsir) and Sharh as-Sunnah, called the Reviver of the Sunnah.
Author of Ihya Ulum ad-Din, one of the most influential works on Islamic spirituality and practice.
Author of Mafatih al-Ghayb (at-Tafsir al-Kabir), a monumental tafsir rich in theological and philosophical discussion.
Called Sultan al-Ulama (Sultan of the Scholars), a fearless Shafii scholar who stood up to rulers.
Shafi'i jurist and political theorist who authored al-Ahkam as-Sult...
...ching in Mecca and Medina. A leading Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist, and the teacher of Imam al-Ghazali.
One of the most influential scholars in Islamic history. Known as Hujjat al-Islam (Proof of Islam). Author of Ihya Ulum ad-Din, a comprehensive guide to Islamic
...of the most widely studied tafsirs in Islamic seminaries. A Shafi'i jurist and Ash'ari theologian.
...f Ihkam al-Ahkam, a commentary on Umdat al-Ahkam, combining Shafii and Maliki perspectives.
Author of Riyad as-Salihin, the Forty Hadith, and the commentary on Sahih Muslim.
Chief judge of Egypt and a prominent Shafii scholar.
The foremost historian of Islam and hadith critic, author of Siyar Alam an-Nubala (biographies of notable figures).
...ne on Ibn al-Hajib's al-Kafiyah (syntax) and one on his ash-Shafiyah (morphology). These commentaries are considered among the m...
Author of Tafsir Ibn Kathir and al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah, among the most widely used references.
A leading Shafi'i jurist of Egypt who served as chief judge and was recognize...
A leading hadith scholar who authored al-Mughni an Haml al-Asfar, tracing the hadith sources cited in al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum ad-Din. His Alfiyyah is a foundatio
Shafii scholar and author of Tabaqat ash-Shafiiyyah al-Kubra, the ...
Author of Fath al-Bari, the most authoritative commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.
Shafii scholar who began Tafsir al-Jalalayn, later completed by hi...
The foremost student of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Author of ad-Daw al-Lami, a biographical dictionary of 15th-century figures, and Fath al-Mughith on hadith method
Shaykh al-Islam of Egypt and a leading Shafi'i authority. Authored commentaries on major works of tafsir, ...
One of the most prolific authors in Islamic history with over 500 works, co-author of Tafsir al-Jalalayn.
Author of Irshad as-Sari li-Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari, an acclaimed commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari that synthesizes earlier commentaries. Also wrote al-Mawahib al-
Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and author of Tuhfat al-Muhtaj, one of the two most ...
Known as the 'Little Shafi'i' (ash-Shafi'i as-Saghir) for his authority in the school. A...
Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and mufassir. Author of Mughni al-Muhtaj, a major co...
Ethiopian-born Shafi'i scholar who settled in Mecca and became a leading authority...
American convert to Islam and Shafi'i scholar based in Amman. Translated the Reliance of the Trav...
Author of 'ar-Risalah al-Qushayriyyah,' one of the most important classical texts on Sufism and spiritual ethics.
Founder of the Suhrawardiyyah Sufi order and author of 'Awarif al-Ma'arif,' a key text on Sufi practice and ethics.
Egyptian Sufi scholar and prolific author known for 'al-Tabaqat al-Kubra' and 'al-Mizan al-Kubra' on comparative fiqh.
The greatest authority on Quranic recitations, author of 'an-Nashr fi al-Qira'at al-Ashr' and the 'Jazariyyah' poem on tajwid.
Pioneer in the science of 'Asbab an-Nuzul' (occasions of revelation) and author of three major Quran commentaries.
The most influential Southeast Asian Islamic scholar, based in Mecca, whose commentaries on classical texts are still widely used across the Malay world.
Minangkabau scholar who served as Imam of the Shafi'i school at Masjid al-Haram and mentored major Indonesian ref...
Leading Syrian Shafi'i scholar and professor at Damascus University, author of num...
Former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shafi'i jurist and Azhari scholar known for his traditional Islamic...
Yemeni scholar and founder of Dar al-Mustafa in Tarim, one of the most influential traditional Islamic learning centers in the world.
Yemeni-Emirati Islamic scholar, media personality, and founder of the Tabah Foundation for Islamic studies and research.
Early Sufi master and theologian known for his works on self-examination (muhasabah) and inner spiritual discipline.
Shafi'i scholar and author of 'Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahl as-Sunnah,' a...
Shafi'i scholar of Nishapur, author of 'Aqidat as-Salaf wa Ashab al...
Author of the 'Muqaddimah' on hadith sciences, the foundational textbook that shaped all subsequent hadith methodology.
Shafi'i historian and scholar of Damascus, teacher of an-Nawawi, au...
Egyptian hadith master and author of 'at-Targhib wat-Tarhib,' a celebrated collection of hadiths on encouragement and warning.
Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i judge, author of 'al-Mawaqif,' one of the most comprehensiv...
Prolific Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar, one of the most productive autho...
Egyptian hadith scholar, author of 'Majma az-Zawa'id,' a comprehensive compilation of hadiths from major collections not in the Six Books.
Damascene scholar and author of 'Subul al-Huda war-Rashad,' one of the most comprehensive books on the Prophetic biography (sirah).
Syrian scholar from a distinguished scholarly family, known for his traditional Islamic teaching and work in counter-extremism.
Known as 'Sultan al-Ulama' (Sultan of the Scholars), a Shafi'i jurist renowned for his courage in confronting unjust ruler...
Founder of Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Islamic organization in the world, and a towering figure in Indonesian Islamic history.
Author of 'al-Qamus al-Muhit,' one of the most famous and comprehensive dictionaries of the Arabic language.
Acehnese scholar who studied in Arabia and became the leading Islamic authority in Southeast Asia, producing the first complete Malay Quran commentary.
...am of al-Azhar and author of widely studied commentaries on Shafi'i fiqh and Ash'ari theology.
Mufti of the Shafi'i school in Mecca and historian, author of works on Prophetic...
Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and father of Shams ad-Din ar-Ramli, both major auth...
Egyptian scholar and author of 'Fayd al-Qadir,' the most extensive commentary on as-Suyuti's 'al-Jami as-Saghir' hadith collection.
Shafi'i jurist and first teacher at the Nizamiyyah Madrasa in Baghd...
Major Shafi'i jurist from Qazwin whose 'al-Aziz' served as one of the two...
Shafi'i jurist from Isfahan, author of 'al-Ghayah wat-Taqrib,' the ...
Yemeni Ba'Alawi scholar and Sufi master from Tarim, author of influential spiritual works including 'Risalat al-Mu'awanah' and 'an-Nasa'ih ad-Diniyyah.'
Hadhrami Ba'Alawi scholar who authored 'Simthut Thahabin,' a devotional poem for the Prophet Muhammad widely chanted in Southeast Asia.
Syrian Shafi'i scholar and professor at Damascus University, known for his...
Palestinian Shafi'i judge and prolific author of works defending traditional Is...
Chief judge of Egypt and author of 'Tadhkirat as-Sami wal-Mutakallim,' a classic text on the etiquette of learning and teaching.
Kurdish-Qatari scholar and Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, specialist in Islamic economics and finance.
Syrian scholar from Aleppo, author of works on the attributes of the Prophet Muhammad and hadith sciences.
Syrian Shafi'i scholar and professor at Damascus University, co-author of ...
...e of the foremost Meccan jurists of his generation. Imam al-Shafi'i and others transmitted from him. He died in Makkah in 126 A...
The preeminent hadith scholar of the 7th century AH, author of the Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah — the foundational text that systematized all hadith sciences termino
The greatest hadith critic and historian of the 8th century AH (673-748 AH), student of Ibn Taymiyyah. His monumental works — Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Mizan al-I'
The towering Shafi'i scholar and hadith master of Damascus (631-676 AH), whose w...
Known as Sultan al-Ulama (King of the Scholars), a great Shafi'i jurist and Ash'ari theologian of Damascus (577-660 AH). He ...
One of the greatest Islamic encyclopedists (544-606 AH), whose Mafatih al-Ghayb (al-Tafsir al-Kabir) is the most comprehensive rationalist tafsir in Islamic his
The most prolific scholar in Islamic history (849-911 AH), authoring over 500 works across virtually every Islamic discipline. His tafsir al-Jalalayn (co-author
...ety (sahw), and sharia-grounded spirituality. He was also a Shafi'i jurist and his letters and sayings remain foundational in c...
Chief student of Imam al-Shafi'i and transmitter of the Shafi'i school, author of the founda...
Leading Shafi'i jurist of Baghdad and author of al-Muhadhdhab, first head o...
Shafi'i Shaykh al-Islam of Damascus, master jurist, hadith scholar,...
Son of Taqi al-Din al-Subki, author of Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra, the monumental biographical dictionary of Shaf...
Known as 'the Small Shafi'i' (al-Shafi'i al-Saghir), author of Nihayat al-Muhtaj, the d...
Major Shafi'i scholar of Cairo, author of Mughni al-Muhtaj, the most wide...
Encyclopedic Shafi'i scholar, author of al-Bahr al-Muhit fi Usul al-Fiqh and al-...
Major Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and legal theorist, known for al-Tamhid fi Takhrij ...
Prolific Indonesian-Meccan Shafi'i scholar, author of numerous widely-read Arabic works on fiq...
Late 19th-century Egyptian Shafi'i scholar, author of I'anat al-Talibin, the most popular comm...
South Indian Shafi'i scholar, author of Fath al-Mu'in, the foundational Shafi'i ...
Shafi'i scholar of 10th-century AH Egypt, wrote marginal notes (has...
Student of Ibn Taymiyya, author of the most widely-read Quran tafsir (Tafsir Ibn Kathir) and al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah (history).
Shafi'i judge and biographer; author of Wafayat al-A'yan, one of th...
The greatest authority on Quranic recitation (qira'at) in the last 700 years. His al-Nashr fi al-Qira'at al-'Ashr and al-Tayyibah are the definitive references
...a ibn Ma'in, Yahya al-Qattan, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Imam al-Shafi'i said: 'No one knows hadith like Ibn Mahdi.'
Known as 'the little al-Shafi'i,' one of the two supreme Shafi'i authorities of the 16th ce...
One of the greatest Islamic scholars of Aceh (Indonesia). His Sirat al-Mustaqim was the first comprehensive Islamic legal text written in Malay.
... scholars of the 2nd century AH in hadith and fiqh. Imam al-Shafi'i said: 'If Sufyan al-Thawri had not been, jurisprudence woul...
Author of al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn, a collection of hadiths he claimed met the criteria of al-Bukhari and Muslim. A major authority on hadith sciences.
The master of hadith sciences in the 5th century AH. His Tarikh Baghdad (History of Baghdad) is the most comprehensive biographical dictionary of scholars assoc
One of the greatest usul al-fiqh scholars. His al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam is the most technically rigorous classical work in Islamic jurisprudential theory.
... al-Ghazali and one of the greatest Ash'ari theologians and Shafi'i jurists.
Greatest Malay-Patani Islamic scholar, prolific author of Malay-language religious texts.
First major Malay poet and Islamic scholar from Aceh, pioneering Malay Islamic literature.
Lebanese-American scholar specializing in Islamic biographical literature and hadith sciences.
Imam of Khorasan in Shafi'i fiqh and usul al-fiqh. Pioneer of systematic legal methodol...
The closest student of al-Shafi'i who inherited his teaching circle in Egypt. Died in prison ...
Most reliable transmitter of Imam al-Shafi'i's works. Without him, the Shafi'i school's texts would be l...
Greatest Arab physician after Ibn Sina. Discovered the pulmonary circulation of blood 300 years before William Harvey.
Greatest historian of Mamluk Egypt. His Khitat is an encyclopedic topographical and historical description of Egypt.
Syrian Islamic scholar, judge, and writer known for his accessible and eloquent Islamic literature.
Khorasan Sufi scholar who compiled the earliest known Sufi tafsir of the Quran.
Khorasan Shafi'i scholar known for his tafsir Ma'alim al-Tanzil and the hadi...
East African Islamic scholar and founder of the Uwaysiyya order; spread Islam in Somalia and East Africa.
Genealogist and hadith scholar from Merv, author of al-Ansab (Genealogies).
Son of Abu Hatim al-Razi; major hadith critic and Quran commentator.
Egyptian polymath who authored over 500 works spanning all Islamic sciences.
Persian theologian and philosopher, Hujjat al-Islam, author of Ihya Ulum al-Din.
An Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and Azhari jurist (d. 1204 AH / 1790 CE), best know...
Founder of the Shafi'i school and father of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh). A...
...became the supreme hadith authority in Mecca, teacher of al-Shafi'i and many other great scholars.