Al-Zarkashi

Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh).[1] He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known.[2] One of his most famous works that has survived is al-Burhan fee 'Uloom al-Qur'an, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.

Al-Zarkashi
Personal
Born1344 CE/745 AH
Egypt
Died1392 CE/794 AH
ReligionIslam
NationalityEgyptian
EraMamluk
RegionMiddle East
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
Main interest(s)Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence.
OccupationHistoriographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist.
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Muhammad
Patronymic (Nasab)Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir
Teknonymic (Kunya)Abū 'Abdullāh
Toponymic (Nisba)az-Zarkashī

Teachers

Az-Zarkashī studied hadīth (one of various reports describing the words, actions, or habits of the prophet Muhammad) in Damascus with Imād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), fiqh and usūl in Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), and Quran and fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Asnawi.[3]

Disciples

His notable students included Shamsuddīn al-Barmaid (d. 830 AH) and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimasyqi (d. 831 AH).

Works
  • Al-bahru al-muhith fī usūl fiqh (البحر المحيط، في أصول الفقه)
  • Salasil adh-dhahab fī usūl fiqh (سلاسل الذهب في أصول الفقه)
  • Al-burhān fī `ulūm al-Qur'an (البرهان في علوم القرآن)
  • I`lanu as of our bi-sajid al-masājid (إعلام الساجد بأحكام المساجد)
  • Al-Ijāba li-Īrād mā Istadrakathu ‘Ā’isha ‘alā al-Sahaba ( الإجابة لما استدركته عائشة على الصحابة) Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islami, 1970)
  • At-tadzkirah fi al-ahadith al-Musytaharah (التذكرة في الأحاديث المشتهرة)
  • Risāla fī ma'nī kalimat fī at-Tawhid (lā ilaha illallah) (رسالة في معني كلمة التوحيد (لا إله إلا الله
  • Al-manthūr fī al-qawā'id fiqh ash-Shāfi'iyyah (المنثور في القواعد فقه شافعي): is considered by many scholars to be among the foremost compendiums of legal principles in the Shāfi'i fiqh. The text includes over 100 principles that are listed alphabetically.
  • Takhrij ahādith ash-Sharh al-Kabir li ar-rafi'ī (تخريج أحاديث الشرح الكبير للرافعي)
  • Al-ghurar as-sāfir fīmā Yahtaju ilaihi al-musafir (الغرر السافر فيما يحتاج إليه المسافر)

References
  1. al-Nukat 'ala al-'Umdah fi'l Ahkam (النكت على العمدة في الأحكام) Imam al-Zarkashi
  2. Jalajel, David S. (2017) Women and Leadership in Islamic Law
  3. Rippin, A. (2012), "al-Zarkas̲h̲ī", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: ISBN 9789004161214, 1960–2007


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