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Imam Muḥammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’i (رَحِمَهُ الله) is remembered in the Islamic tradition as someone who put a structure to the faculty of usul al-fiqh (legal theory) by his teachings and his writings. He was a mujaddid (revivalist) in legal method, a master of Arabic language, a poet , a jurist, and a hafidh. Al-Shāfiʿī was from Banū al-Muṭṭalib, a noble…

Abu Hanifah—Numan ibn Thabit رحمه الل was born in Kufah during the late Umayyad Caliphate era, commonly dated to 699 CE (80 AH). He got the name Abu Hanifah because of the Ink pot (Hanifah) he carried with him. Abu Hanifah became one of the formative architects of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence and the eponym of the Ḥanafī school, the largest…

Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal’s رحمه الله legacy is multifold. As a master of ḥadīth, his Musnad is a lasting reservoir for scholars all over the islamic world, and as a jurist, his strict adherence to Qur’an, authentic Sunnah, and the ways of the Companions became the foundation of the Ḥanbalī Madhab. Yet his most inspiring legacy is the moral leadership…

To understand and evaluate the work and contribution of a scholar to the social, political and literary world, it is important to understand the dynamics of the world he lived in. The doctrines and philosophies of any dogma does not develop in a vacuum but often matures as a response to the tensions and challenges present in the era it…

Thirteenth century was a turbulent time for Islamic world. The immensely powerful empire of Abbasid Caliphs, which was on decline for a few generations, was totally devastated and crushed by the Mongol invasion. The fall of Baghdad was so brutal and so thorough, that the morale of muslims across the world was at its lowest point. The political turmoil was…

In early third Islamic century, in the city of Nishapur, the bazaars were busy with cloth merchants and spice sellers, but beyond the commerce lay the circles of learning and Islamic scholarship. The air of the city was rife with echoes of recitation and debate, and a culture that treated the Prophet’s words ﷺ as a trust to be carried…