Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamza al-Manūfī al-Miṣrī al-Anṣārī S̲h̲ams al-Dīn( ar, شمس الدين الرملي) also known as Shams al-Din al-Ramli (d. 957 AH / 1550 CE) was an

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Sunni scholar, known as the leading

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jurist and

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in his era. He was considered the tenth century renewer of Islam and nicknamed the " little Shafi'i". He was the son of scholar Shihab al-Din al-Ramli.

Biography

Shams al-Din was born in

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in the year 1513. His father was a jurist and

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who taught him. He also studied under

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and

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in Al-Azhar University. After completing his studies, Shams al-Din became the chief

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, the same position his father had held before him. Upon his father's death, Shams al-Dīn took over his teaching position in the Al-Azhar university. He also taught in the Khashshabiyya and Sharifiyya. Shams al-Din's notable students include Al-Munawi and Ala al-Din al-Babili. He died in

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at the date of 13 January 1596.

Works

* ''Nihayat al-Muhtaj Sharj al-Minhaj'', a popular commentary on

Al-Nawawi Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي;‎ (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ...

's Minhaj al-Talibin. * ''Ghayat al-Bayan'', a popular commentary on Ibn Ruslān's 'zubād'. * ''Al-Gharar Al-Bahiya'', a popular commentary on al-Nawawī's ‘idāh fī manāsik al-hajj’. * ''Umdat Al-Rabeh'' * A commentary on Shaykh al-Islam's (Zakariyya al-Ansārī) ‘tahrīr'. * A collection of Fatwa by his father

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{{Authority control Asharis Shafi'is Shaykh al-Islāms Mujaddid Sunni fiqh scholars Hadith scholars Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Sunni imams Egyptian imams Egyptian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Shafi'i fiqh scholars 1513 births 1596 deaths 16th-century Arab people

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