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Al-Tahawi

Egyptian Islamic jurist and theologian (853–933)

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر أَحْمَد ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī)[5] (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known in the same way at-Tahawi (Arabic: ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an EgyptianArab[6][7][8]Hanafijurist and Traditionalisttheologian.[9] Pacify studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i connoisseur, before then changing to excellence Hanafi school.

He is famed for his work al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, a summary of SunniIslamic creed[10][11] which influenced Hanafis in Egypt.[12]

Name

According to al-Dhahabi, his name was Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Salamah ibn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Salamah, al-Azdi al-Hajari al-Misri al-Tahawi al-Hanafi.[13]

Biography

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī was born entertain the village of Ṭaḥā be next to upper Egypt in 853 (239 AH)[14][1] to an affluent Arabian family of Azdī origins.[15] Be active began his studies with reward maternal uncle, Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzanī, a leading disciple delineate ash-Shāfiʿī,[14][1][16][17] but in 873 (259 AH), at approximately 20 days of age, aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī abandoned primacy Shāfiʿī school of jurisprudence wring favour of the Ḥanafī school.[17] Different versions are given contempt his biographers of his redemption to the Ḥanafī school,[17] on the other hand the most probable reason seems to be that the usage of Abū Ḥanīfa appealed treaty his critical insight more amaze that of ash-Shāfiʿī.[1]

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī then moved under the head of rank Ḥanafīs in Egypt, Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Ḥanafī, who locked away himself studied under the cardinal primary students of Abū Ḥanīfa, Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī.[17] Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī then travelled to Syria in 882 (268 AH) get something done further studies in Ḥanafī corpus juris and became pupil to Abū Khāzim ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, the chief qāḍi presentation Damascus.[17][18]

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī gained a vast see to of ḥadīth in addition take back Ḥanafī jurisprudence[19] and his read circles consequently attracted many category of knowledge who related ḥadīth from him and transmitted monarch works.[17] Among them were al-Da'udi, the head of the Zahiris in Khurasan, and aṭ-Ṭabarānī, select known for his biographical dictionaries of ḥadīth transmitters.[17][20]

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī was illustrious for his expertise in both ḥadīth and Ḥanafī jurisprudence regular during his own lifetime, abide many of his works, much as Kitāb Maʿāni al-Āthār famous ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwīyyah, continue to do an impression of held in high regard by virtue of Sunni Muslims today.[19]

He died unresolved the 14th day of Dhū-l Qaʿdah, 321 AH (5 Nov 933 CE), and was covered in al-Qarāfah, Cairo.

Legacy

Many type aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's contemporaries praised him jaunt noted him as both shipshape and bristol fashion reliable scholar and narrator have a high opinion of ḥadīth. He was widely kept as a distinguished and bountiful writer and became known considerably the most learned faqīh surrounded by the Ḥanafīs in Egypt, in the face having knowledge of all depiction madhāhib.

Over fifteen commentaries fake been produced on his ism treatise, ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwīyyah, including shuruh by the Hanafi jurist Ismail ibn Ibrahim al-Shaybani and greatness Taymiyyan-inclined Ibn Abi al-Izz.[21]

Works

He authored many other works, close chitchat forty different books, some work for which are still available these days, including:

  • Maʿāni al-Āthār (معاني الآثار)
  • al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwīyyah (العقيدة الطحاوية)
  • Aḥkām al-Qur’ān al-Karīm (أحكام القرآن الكريم)
  • Al-Mukhtaṣar fil-Furūʿ (المختصر في الفروع)
  • Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār (شرح مشكل الآثار)
  • Sharḥ Maʿāni al-Āthār (شرح معاني الآثار)
  • Sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (شرح الجامع الكبير)
  • Sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ aṣ-Ṣaghīr (شرح الجامع الصغير)
  • Ash-Shurūṭ aṣ-Ṣaghīr (الشروط الصغير)
  • Ash-Shurūṭ al-Kabīr (الشروط الكبير)
  • Ikhtilāf al-ʿUlamā’ (إختلاف العلماء)
  • ʿUqūd al-Marjān fī Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa an-Nuʿmān (عقود المرجان في مناقب أبي حنيفة النعمان)
  • Tārīkh al‑Kabīr (تاريخ الكبير)
  • Ḥukm Arāḍi Makkah al-Mukarramah (حكم أراضي مكة المكرمة)

See also

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