Ali al-Qari علي القاري | |
|---|---|
| Title | Mulla(Grand scholar) |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 15th century |
| Died | 1605/06 (1014 AH)[1][2] |
| Nationality |  Ottoman Empire |
| Region | Khurasan andMakkah |
| Main interest(s) | Islamic Jurisprudence,Hadith,Theology |
| Notable work(s) | Mirqat al-Mafatih,Minah al-Rawd al-Azhar,Al-Hizb al-A'zam |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi[3] |
| Muslim leader | |
Influenced by | |
Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari (Arabic:نور الدين أبو الحسن علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي القاري; d. 1605/1606), known asMulla Ali al-Qari (ملا علي القاري) was aPersianIslamic scholar.
He was born inHerat, where he received his basic Islamic education. Thereafter, he travelled toMecca and studied under the scholar Shaykh AhmadIbn Hajar al-Haytami Makki, and al-Qari eventually decided to remain in Mecca where he taught, died and was buried.
He is considered inHanafi circles[1] to be one of the masters ofhadith and imams offiqh,Qur'anic commentary, language, history andtasawwuf. He was ahafiz (memoriser of theQuran) and a famouscalligrapher who wrote a Quran by hand every year.
Al-Qari wrote several books, including the commentaryal-Mirqat onMishkat al-Masabih in several volumes, a two-volume commentary onQadi Ayyad'sAsh-Shifa,[4] a commentary on theShama'il al-Tirmidhi, and a two-volume commentary onAl-Ghazali's abridgement of theIhya Ulum ad-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences) entitled`Ayn al-`Ilm wa Zayn al-Hilm (The spring of knowledge and the adornment of understanding). He also wroteDaw' al-Ma'ali Sharh Bad' al-Amali (Arabic:ضوء المعالي شرح بدء الأمالي), an exposition ofQasidaBad' al-Amali bySiraj al-Din al-Ushi.[2][5]
His most popular work is a collection of prayers (dua), taken from the Quran and the Hadith, calledHizb ul-Azam.[6] The collection is divided into seven chapters, giving one chapter for each day of the week. This work is sometimes found in a collection with theDalail al-Khayrat.
He died in Makkah and was buried inJannat al-Mu'alla Cemetery graveyard.
