Al-Zarkashi | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | 1344 CE/745 AH |
| Died | 1392 CE/794 AH |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Era | Mamluk |
| Region | Middle East |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith studies,Islamic jurisprudence. |
| Occupation | Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari[1] |
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| Personal (Ism) | Muhammad |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū 'Abdullāh |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | az-Zarkashī |
Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known asAz-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided inMamluk-eraCairo. He specialized in the fields of law,hadith, history andShafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh).[2] He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known.[3] One of his most famous works that has survived isal-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.
Az-Zarkashī studiedhadīth (one of various reports describing the words, actions, or habits of the prophetMuhammad) inDamascus withImād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir (d. 1373),fiqh andusūl inAleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), andQuran andfiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time,Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi.[4]
His notable students included Shamsuddīn al-Barmaid (d. 830 AH) and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimashqi (d. 831 AH).
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