Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī (

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:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), born 1041 or 1044 (433 AH or 436 AH) died 1122 (516 AH) was a renowned

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faqih, best known for his major work '' Maʻālim at-Tanzīl''. ''Al-Farra'' is a reference to trading with fur, and ''al-Baghawī'' is a reference to his hometown Bagh or Baghshûr (then in

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Marw al-Rudh Marw-Rud ( fa, مرورود, also fa, مروروذ ''Marw-Rudh'') or Marw al-Rudh (from ar, مرو الروذ; "Marw on the river"), locally used to be known by the older variants Marwarudh () and Marrudh (),"مرورود" in Dehkhoda Dictionary ...

. He died in Marw al-Rudh. He is also famous for his other works on hadith such as Sharh as-Sunnah and

Masabih as-Sunnah ''Masabih al-Sunnah'' is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additiona ...

, the latter became famous as Mishkah al-Masabih with the additions of at-Tabrizi (d. 741H). He was a student of al-Qadi Husayn.

Works

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* ''Maʿālim at-Tanzīl'' also known as ''Tafsīr al-Baghawī'' (معالم التنزيل المعروف بتفسير البغوي) * ''At-Tahdhīb fī Fiqh al-Imām ash-Shāfiʻī'' (التهذيب في فقه الإمام الشافعي) * ''Sharḥ as-Sunnah'' (شرح السنة) * ''Maṣābīḥ as-Sunnah'' (مصابيح السنة) * ''Al-Anwār fī Shamāʼil an-Nabī al-Mukhtār'' (الأنوار في شمائل النبي المختار ) * ''Al-Jamʻ bayn aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥayn'' (الجمع بين الصحيحين) * ''Al-Arbaʻīn Ḥadīthā'' (الأربعين حديثاً) * ''Majmūʻah min al-Fatāwā'' (مجموعة من الفتاوى)

References

1040s births 1122 deaths Persian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Shafi'is 11th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Hadith scholars Quranic exegesis scholars 11th-century Iranian people 12th-century Iranian people 11th-century jurists 12th-century jurists {{Islamic-scholar-stub