Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in
Mamluk
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Cairo
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. He specialized in the fields of law, ''
hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...
'', history and
Shafi'i
The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...
legal jurisprudence (''
fiqh
''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh.
The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...
''). He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known. One of his most famous works that has survived is al-Burhan fee 'Uloom al-Qur'an, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.
Teachers
Az-Zarkashī studied ''hadīth'' (one of various reports describing the words, actions, or habits 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 ...
) in
Damascus with
Imād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), ''fiqh'' and
''usūl'' in
Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), and
Quran
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , s ...
and ''fiqh'' in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Asnawi.
Disciples
His notable students included Shamsuddīn al-Barmaid (d. 830 AH) and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimasyqi (d. 831 AH).
Works
*''Al-bahru al-muhith fī usūl fiqh'' (البحر المحيط، في أصول الفقه)
*''Salasil adh-dhahab fī usūl fiqh'' (سلاسل الذهب في أصول الفقه)
*''Al-burhān fī `ulūm al-Qur'an'' (البرهان في علوم القرآن)
*''I`lanu as of our bi-sajid al-masājid'' (إعلام الساجد بأحكام المساجد)
*"The Corrective: ʿĀ’isha’s Rectification of the Companions" ''Al-Ijāba li-Īrād mā Istadrakathu ‘Ā’isha ‘alā al-Sahaba'' ( الإجابة لما استدركته عائشة على الصحابة)
[Sofia Abdur Rehma]
ʿĀ’isha’s Corrective of the Companions: A Translation and Critical Ḥadīth Study
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*''At-tadzkirah fi al-ahadith al-Musytaharah'' (التذكرة في الأحاديث المشتهرة)
*''Risāla fī ma'nī kalimat fī at-Tawhid (lā ilaha illallah)'' (رسالة في معني كلمة التوحيد (لا إله إلا الله
*''Al-manthūr fī al-qawā'id fiqh ash-Shāfi'iyyah'' (المنثور في القواعد فقه شافعي): is considered by many scholars to be among the foremost compendiums of legal principles in the Shāfi'i ''fiqh''. The text includes over 100 principles that are listed alphabetically.
*''Takhrij ahādith ash-Sharh al-Kabir li ar-rafi'ī'' (تخريج أحاديث الشرح الكبير للرافعي)
*''Al-ghurar as-sāfir fīmā Yahtaju ilaihi al-musafir'' (الغرر السافر فيما يحتاج إليه المسافر)
See also
* List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
The list of Ash'aris and Maturidis includes prominent adherents of the Ash'ari and Maturidi schools of thought. The Ash'aris are a doctrinal school of thought named after Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, and the Maturidi school is named for Abu Mans ...
References
1344 births
1392 deaths
14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Asharis
Hadith scholars
Sunni Muslim scholars
Sunni fiqh scholars
Shafi'is
Sharia judges
Theologians from the Mamluk Sultanate
14th-century jurists
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