Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi
عبد العزيز علي · Public domain
- Born
- 1427 · Cairo.
- Died
- 1497 · Medina.
- Nationality
- Medieval Egypt
- Occupation
- muhaddith · writer · historian · imam · qāriʾ
- Fields
- science of hadith · history of Islam · Arabic literature
- Teachers
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani · Ibn bint al-Aqsarayi · Al-Maqrizi · Āsiyah bint Jār Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Shaybānī al-Ṭabarī
- Known for
- al-Ghāyah fī sharḥ al-Hidāyah fī ʻilm al-riwāyah · Dhaw'a al-Lamie · al-Sirr al-maktūm fī al-firaq bayna al-mālayn al-Maḥmūd wa-al-madhmūm · al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar fī tarjamat Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Ḥajar
- Languages
- Arabic · Egyptian Arabic
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Training under Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Ibn bint al-Aqsarayi and Al-Maqrizi is recorded. Al-Fajījī and ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻUmar Ibn Fahd are recorded as having studied under Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi. The recorded working language is Arabic and Egyptian Arabic. The field of work recorded is science of hadith, history of Islam and Arabic literature. Works named in the authority record are al-Ghāyah fī sharḥ al-Hidāyah fī ʻilm al-riwāyah, Dhaw'a al-Lamie, al-Sirr al-maktūm fī al-firaq bayna al-mālayn al-Maḥmūd wa-al-madhmūm and al-Jawāhir wa-al-durar fī tarjamat Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Ḥajar.
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- 1.almostaneer.com. Ahl al-Sunna: The Ash'aris - The Testimony and Proofs of the Scholars.
- 2.Salmān, Mashhūr Ḥasan Maḥmūd. Muʼallafāt al-Sakhāwī : al-ʻAllāmah al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī, 831–902 H. Dār Ibn Ḥazm. 18. 1998.
- 3.Rapoport, Yossef. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society. Cambridge University Press. 5–6. 2005. 0-521-84715-X.
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