Al-Hafiz Zain al-Din 'Abd al-Rahim al-'Iraqi (, 1403-1325) was a renowned Kurdish

Shafi'i The Shafi'i school or Shafi'i Madhhab () or Shafi'i is one of the four major schools of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), belonging to the Ahl al-Hadith tradition within Sunni Islam. It was founded by the Muslim scholar, jurist, and traditionis ...

scholar and was the foremost leading

hadith scholar Hadith studies is the academic study of hadith, a literature typically thought in Islam, Islamic religion to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators. A major area of ...

at his time.

Biography

He is called: Al-Iraqi, relative to

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, because his origin is Kurdish, from a town called

Erbil Erbil (, ; , ), also called Hawler (, ), is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The city is the capital of the Erbil Governorate. Human settlement at Erbil may be dated back to the 5th millennium BC. At the h ...

then his father moved to

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when he was young, grew up there, and married a righteous, worshiping woman who gave birth to him. He was born in the year of 1325 in Manshiyet Al-Mahrani on the shore of the

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river. His parents were known to be righteous and pious and his father died when he was three years old. He memorized the Noble Qur’an when he was just eight years old, and memorized other books such as “Al-Tanbih”, “Al-Hawi”, “Imam”, and his first occupation was in the science of readings, and he looked into jurisprudence and its origins, and advanced in them. His teacher Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi was praising his understanding, appreciating his words, and listening to his discussions. Then he came to the knowledge of hadith with a sign from al-Izz ibn Jama’a, so he learned from the scholars of his country, then he travelled to seek hadith in the countries of the

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and elsewhere. He met with Sheikh al-Islam Taqi al-Din al-Subki and began studying under him for a number of years. He used to do Hajj and live nearby in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and he worked hard, copied, read and listened until he became the great Ḥafiẓ of his time, as his peers said about him. He was a scholar of grammar, language, strangers, readings, hadith, jurisprudence and its origins, but he was dominated by the art of hadith, so he became famous for it, and became unrivalled in this field.

Students

Among his many students, his most renowned ones include: *

Wali al-Din al-'Iraqi The term ''wali'' is most commonly used by Muslims to refer to a saint, or literally a "friend of God".John Renard, ''Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008); John ...

Nur al-Din al-Haythami Nur al-Din `Ali ibn Abi Bakr ibn Sulayman, Abu al-Hasan al-Haythami (, commonly known as Nur al-Din al-Haythami was a famous Sunni Egyptian scholar and an eminent Hadith expert who wrote lengthy works on hadith sciences. Biography He was born ...

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, ...

Badr al-Din al-Ayni Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni (; born 26 Ramadan 762 AH/30 July 1360 CE, died 855 AH/1453 CE) was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab and the Shadhili tariq ...

Al-Damiri Al-Damiri (1341–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic from late medieval Cairo. He was best known for his writing on Muslim j ...

Al-Qalqashandi Shihāb al-Dīn Abū 'l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ‘Abd Allāh al-Fazārī al-Shāfiʿī better known by the epithet al-Qalqashandī (; 1355 or 1356 – 1418), was a medieval Arab Egyptian encyclopedist, polymath and mathemati ...

* Ibn al-'Ajmi

Death

Al-Iraqi died in 1403 at the age of 78.

Works

Al-Iraqi was an author of renowned works on various subjects. Following is a list of his works. * ''At-Taqyid Wal-Idah', best commentary on Muqaddimah Ibn as-Salah'' * ''Ikhbar al-Ahya’ bi Akhbar al-Ihya, an exhaustive work on Ihyaa 'Uloom al-Deen where he grades the hadith.'' * ''Tahrib al-Tathreeb fi Sharh al-Taqrib'' * ''Alfiat Al-Hadith'' * ''Alfiat Al-Iraqi Fi Usul Al-Fiqh & Matn Minhaj Al-Wusul Li-L-Baydawi'' * ''Kitab fi Almurasalati'' * ''Al Tahrir fi 'Usul al Fiqh'' * ''Nazm al-Durar al-Saniyya fi Sir al-Zakiyah'' * ''Al alfiat fi al Quran al Gharib'' * ''Sharh al-Tirmidhi''

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{{Authority control Shafi'is Mujaddid Hadith scholars Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 1325 births 1403 deaths 14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 14th-century jurists 15th-century jurists Biographical evaluation scholars 14th-century Kurdish people 15th-century Kurdish people

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