Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (1372–1449) was an ulema, islamic jurist and qur'anic exegete.
Also recorded as Ahmad ibn Hajar al- Asqalani; Abu-l-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥaǧar al-‘Asḳalânî.
Overview
Born at Old Cairo in 1372, died at Cairo in 1449.
In detail
training under Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Husain al-'Iraqi, Ahmad Ibn-Muhammad Ibn-al-Haʾim and Ibn al-Mulaqqin is recorded. Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi, Galal al-Din el-Suyuti and Zakariyya al-Ansari are recorded as having studied under Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. the recorded working language is Arabic.
The field of work recorded is science of hadith and fiqh.
Works named in the authority record are Fath al-Bari, Bulūgh al-marām min adillat al-aḥkām, Lisān al-mīzān, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-ṣaḥābah, al-Maṭālib al-ʻĀlīyah bi-Zawāʼid al-masānīd al-thamāniyah and Durar al-Kāminah fī aʻyān al-miʼah al-thāminah.
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