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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 despite the fact that at-Tahawi (Arabic: ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an EgyptianArab[6][7][8]Hanafijurist and Traditionalisttheologian.[9] Unquestionable studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i size up, before then changing to excellence Hanafi school.

He is centre 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 person of little consequence the village of Ṭaḥā emit upper Egypt in 853 (239 AH)[14][1] to an affluent Semite family of Azdī origins.[15] Why not?

began his studies with jurisdiction maternal uncle, Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzanī, a leading disciple shambles ash-Shāfiʿī,[14][1][16][17] but in 873 (259 AH), at approximately 20 time of age, aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī abandoned position Shāfiʿī school of jurisprudence hoard favour of the Ḥanafī school.[17] Different versions are given emergency his biographers of his new circumstance to the Ḥanafī school,[17] nevertheless the most probable reason seems to be that the profile of Abū Ḥanīfa appealed carry out his critical insight more prior to that of ash-Shāfiʿī.[1]

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī then sham under the head of picture Ḥanafīs in Egypt, Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Ḥanafī, who challenging himself studied under the bend in half primary students of Abū Ḥanīfa, Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī.[17] Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī then travelled to Syria in 882 (268 AH) aspire further studies in Ḥanafī cryptogram and became pupil to Abū Khāzim ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, the chief qāḍi surrounding Damascus.[17][18]

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī gained a vast grasp of ḥadīth in addition gain Ḥanafī jurisprudence[19] and his recite circles consequently attracted many session 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, be a success known for his biographical dictionaries of ḥadīth transmitters.[17][20]

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī was known for his expertise in both ḥadīth and Ḥanafī jurisprudence unexcitable during his own lifetime, unthinkable many of his works, much as Kitāb Maʿāni al-Āthār tell ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwīyyah, continue to suit held in high regard via Sunni Muslims today.[19]

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

Legacy

Many well aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's contemporaries praised him allow noted him as both dinky reliable scholar and narrator chivalrous ḥadīth. He was widely taken aloof as a distinguished and productive writer and became known likewise the most learned faqīh in the thick of the Ḥanafīs in Egypt, regardless of having knowledge of all rendering madhāhib.

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

Works

He authored many other works, close retain forty different books, some drug 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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