Al-Zarkashi

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-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history, and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh). 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-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān, 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) 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 and fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi.

Disciples

His notable students included Shamsuddīn al-Barmaid (d. 830 AH) and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimashqi (d. 831 AH).

Works

• Al-bahr al-muhÄ«t fÄ« usÅ«l al-fiqh (البحر المحيط، في أصول الفقه)
• Salāsil adh-dhahab fÄ« usÅ«l al-fiqh (سلاسل الذهب في أصول الفقه)
• Al-burhān fÄ« Ê¿ulÅ«m al-Qur'ān (البرهان في علوم القرآن)
• IÊ¿lam as-sājid bi-ahkām al-masājid (إعلام الساجد بأحكام المساجد)
• "The Corrective: ʿĀ’isha’s Rectification of the Companions" Al-Ijāba limā istadrakatahu ‘Ā’isha ‘alā as-Sahāba ( الإجابة لما استدركته عائشة على الصحابة)
• At-tadhkirah fÄ« al-ahādÄ«th al-mushtaharah (التذكرة في الأحاديث المشتهرة)
• Risāla fÄ« maÊ¿nÄ« kalimat fÄ« at-Tawhid (lā ilaha illallah) (رسالة في معني كلمة التوحيد (لا إله إلا الله
• Al-manthÅ«r fÄ« al-qawāʿid fiqh ash-ShāfiÊ¿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.
• TakhrÄ«j ahādÄ«th ash-sharh al-kabÄ«r li ar-RāfiÊ¿Ä« (تخريج أحاديث الشرح الكبير للرافعي)
• Al-ghurar as-sāfir fÄ«mā yahtāju ilaihi al-musāfir (الغرر السافر فيما يحتاج إليه المسافر)

See also

• List of Ash'aris and Maturidis

References