Nur al-Din Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hasani al-Samhudi ( ar, علي بن أحمد السمهودي) was a
Mamluk
Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...
Shafi'i
Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...
.
He is known to be the last person to enter and clean the Inner Chamber of the prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mo ...
's grave.
Al Samhudi wrote ''Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa'' in five volumes. In this book he intended to gather in it everything connected to the city of
Medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
.
References
External links
Ghadir Khumm: Narrations where the Prophet [s] confirms from the Companions his authority over them
Asharis
Shafi'is
Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
1466 births
16th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
15th-century jurists
16th-century jurists
1533 deaths
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