Imam Shafi’i
Posted on February 27, 2005
Filed Under Muslim, Personality, Profile
Muhammad ibn Idris ibn al-`Abbas, al-Imam al-Shafi`i, Abu `Abd Allah al-Shafi`i al-Hijazi al-Qurashi al-Hashimi al-Muttalibi. Al-Shafi’i belonged to the Qurayshi clan Banu Muttalib which was the sister clan of the Banu Hashim to which Prophet Muhammad and the Abbasid caliphs belonged.[1] He was born in Ghazza or `Asqalan in 150 AH, the year of Abu Hanifa’s death, and moved to Mecca at the age of two, following his father’s death, where he grew up. He died at the age of 54 on the 30th of Rajab in the Hijri year 204 AH (or, 820 AD). He was buried in al-Fustat, Egypt.[2]
Books written:
He authored more than 100 books. The most important of which are:
- Al-Risala — The best known book by al-Shafi’i in which he examined usul al-fiqh (sources of jurisprudence): the Qur’an, the Sunnah, qiyas (analogy), and ijma’ (scholarly consensus). There is a good modern translation.
- Kitab al-Umm - his main surviving text on Shafi’i fiqh
- Musnad Ash-Shafi’i (on hadith) - it is available with arrangement, Arabic ‘Tartib’, by Ahmad ibn Abd-Ar-Rahman al-Banna
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[1] sunnah.org
[2] wikipedia.org
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