Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari أبو إسحاق الصفّار البخاري | |
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| Title | Rukn al-Islam (the Pillar of Islam)[1] |
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| Born | 460 A.H. = 1067-8 A.D.[2] |
| Died | 534 A.H. = 1139 A.D. |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Transoxiana, modern-day Uzbekistan |
| Main interest(s) | Aqidah,Kalam (Islamictheology),Fiqh (Islamicjurisprudence) |
| Notable work(s) | Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid |
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| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi[3] |
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Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari (Arabic:أبو إسحاق الصفّار البخاري), was an important representative of theSunni theological school ofAbu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. c. 333/944) and the author ofTalkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid (Arabic:تلخيص الأدلّة لقواعد التوحيد) which is a voluminouskalam work.[4][5][6]
He lived inBukhara under the dominance of WestKarakhanids. His theological works, his method inkalam, and frequent reference to his works byOttoman andArab scholars indicate that al-Saffar is a respected and authoritativeHanafi-Maturiditheologian who systematically established his ideas about kalam believing that information based upon reason, revealed knowledge and senses are determinative in his area.[7][8]
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Isma'il b. Ahmad b. Ishaq b. Shayth, known as al-Zahid al-Saffar.[9][10]
The alternative name Ibrahim b. Ishaq, recorded byBrockelmann in hisGAL, is found only in theBritish Museum manuscript no. 1577, Add. 27526, and is presumably erroneous, since the few bibliographical sources that mention al-Saffar call him Ibn Isma'il.[11][12]
In his work titledTalkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid onkalām,[Note 1] he wrote extensively aboutal-Asma' al-Husna (the Most Beautiful Names of God). Approximately one third of this work, published in two volumes, was devoted to al-Asma' al-Husna. In the pre-Saffar Hanafi-Maturidi theological literature, there was no other work that addressed al-Asma' al-Husna in such an extensive way.[13]
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