Ahmad Muhammad Shakir () (January 29, 1892,

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– June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian

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hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

. He is the son of Muḥammad Shākir ibn Aḥmad, an Islamic scholar of

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and elder brother of Mahmud Muhammad Shakir, a writer and journalist. As editor, Shākir's Cairo publication, from 1937 in 5 volumes, provided the standard topical classification of the hadith

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for Sunan at-Tirmidhi. The work was subject to many reprints.''Hadith and the Quran'',

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Positions held

He graduated from and worked at

and retired in 1951. Among the positions that he held was that of vice-chairman of the Supreme Shariah Court in

Works

* ''al-Ba'ith al-Hathith'': his explanation of

Ibn Kathir Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (; ), known simply as Ibn Kathir, was an Arab Islamic Exegesis, exegete, historian and scholar. An expert on (Quranic exegesis), (history) and (Islamic jurisprudence), he is considered a lea ...

's ''Ikhtisaar 'Uloom al-Hadith'', an abridgement of the ''Muqaddimah'' in

hadith terminology Hadith terminology () is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings (''hadith'') attributed to the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic figures of significance such as the compa ...

* ''

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal ''Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal'' () is a collection of musnad hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. AH 241/AD 855) to whom the Hanbali fiqh (legislation) is attributed. Description Musnad Ahmad, also known as Al-Musnad , is on ...

'': his footnotes to approximately the first third of

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's large collection of

* ''Jaami' al-Bayyaan'', commonly referred to as

Tafsir al-Tabari ''Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān'' (, also written with ''fī'' in place of ''ʿan''), popularly ''Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī'' (), is a Sunni ''tafsir'' by the Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923). It immediately w ...

: footnotes to

Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim ulama, scholar, polymath, Islamic history, historian, tafsir, exegete, faqīh, juris ...

's explanation of the Quran; incomplete * ''

Sunan al-Tirmidhi ''Sunan al-Tirmidhi'' () is the fourth hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by Islamic scholar al-Tirmidhi in (250–270 AH). Title The full title of the compilation is (). It is shortened to , , , or . The t ...

'': his footnotes to about the first third of this hadith collection * ''

al-Muhalla Kitab al-Muhallā bi'l Athār, also known as Al-Muhalla ("The Sweetened" or "The Adorned Treatise," ) is a book of Islamic law and jurisprudence by . It is considered one of the primary sources of the Zahirite (lit. apparent, manifest) school wit ...

'': footnotes to the ''fiqh'' book of

ibn Hazm Ibn Hazm (; November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Described as one of the strictest hadith interpre ...

* ''al-'Aqidah al-Tahaawiyyah'': editing and footnotes to the famous book of

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Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi Ahmad () is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other English spellings of the name include Ahmed. It is also used as a surname. Etymology The word derives from the root ( ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from ...

* Umdah al-Tafsir'': abridgement of ''

Tafsir ibn Kathir (), commonly known as ' (), is the Qur'anic exegesis (') by Ibn Kathir. It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science of interpretation of the Quran. It also includes jurisprudential rulings, and takes care of the hadit ...

''; incomplete

References

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