Ibn Mufliḥ al-Maqdisī, in full "Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muflih ibn Muhammad ibn Mufarraj al-Ramini al-Maqdisi" (710-763 AH/1310-1362 CE), was one of the leading authorities in
Hanbali
The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ...
Law and one of the most prolific writers of the Ḥanbalī school of his period. He is a jurisconsult who stands at the head of a large family of jurisconsults, who survived until the seventeenth century. He received his tutelage amongst several prominent Hanbali figures, including
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah (January 22, 1263 – September 26, 1328; ar, ابن تيمية), birth name Taqī ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Numayrī al-Ḥarrānī ( ar, تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم ...
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Ibn Muflih married the daughter of the Hanbalis
Qadi al-Qudat Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mardāwī (700-769/1300-1367) and had seven children from this marriage, five boys and two girls.
The similarity of some of the names among the descendants of Ibn Muflih is liable to lead to confusion, especially as regards those named
Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, of whom there are five.
After a life of writing and teaching in Damascus in three Hanbali
madrasa
Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...
s, al-D̲j̲awziyya, al-Ṣāḥibiyya and al-ʿUmariyya, he died in 763/1362.
Works
He gave particular attention to the juristic preferences of
Ibn Taymiyah
Ibn Taymiyyah (January 22, 1263 – September 26, 1328; ar, ابن تيمية), birth name Taqī ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Numayrī al-Ḥarrānī ( ar, تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم ...
. His extant works have preserved much that has been lost of earlier Ḥanbali works, notably his
Ādāb s̲h̲arʿīyya (3 volumes, Cairo 1348/1930), which contains many excerpts of Kitāb al-Funūn of
Ibn Aqil
Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi (1040–1119) was an Islamic theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. He was trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school (''madhab'') for eleven years under scholars such as the Qadi Abu Ya'la. Despite this, I ...
. His work on legal methodology, Kitāb Uṣūl al-fiḳh.
Kitāb al-Furūʿ (3 volumes, 1339/1921) is one of the most important Hanbalī works for the establishment of the true legal doctrine of
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...
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* ''Usool al-Fiqh li-Ibn Muflih''
References
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1310 births
1362 deaths
Atharis
Syrian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
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Muslim scholars of Islamic jurisprudence
Hanbalis
14th-century jurists
People from Tulkarm Governorate