Al-Zarkashi

{{short description|14th-century Islamic scholar}} {{Infobox religious biography|religion=Islam |name = |image = |caption = |title = |birth_name = |birth_date = 1344 CE/745 AH |birth_place = Egypt |death_date = 1392 CE/794 AH |death_place = |death_cause = |resting_place = |other_names = |nationality = Egyptian |ethnicity = |era = Mamluk |region = Middle East |occupation = Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |denomination = Sunni |jurisprudence = Shafi'i |creed = Ash'ari<ref>{{cite web|url=https://alsunna.org/2013-02-06-22-16-47.html#gsc.tab=0|title=Some of the names of scholars of the Ash'ari nation|website=alsunna.org|access-date=2023-02-08|archive-date=2023-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208113828/https://alsunna.org/2013-02-06-22-16-47.html#gsc.tab=0|url-status=dead}}</ref> |movement = |main_interests = Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence. |notable_ideas = |notable_works = |alma_mater = |Sufi_order = |disciple_of = |awards = |influences = |influenced = |module = {{Infobox Arabic name|embed=yes | ism = Muhammad | nasab = Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir | kunya = Abū 'Abdullāh | laqab = | nisba = az-Zarkashī }}}} '''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'').<ref>[http://www.loohpress.com/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/205/products_id/1800 al-Nukat 'ala al-'Umdah fi'l Ahkam (النكت على العمدة في الأحكام) Imam al-Zarkashi]</ref> He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers, and only the titles are known.<ref>Jalajel, David S. (2017) ''Women and Leadership in Islamic Law''</ref> 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.<ref>Rippin, A. (2012), "al-Zarkas̲h̲ī", in: [http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-zarkashi-SIM_8945 ''Encyclopaedia of Islam''], Second Edition: {{ISBN|9789004161214}}, 1960–2007</ref>

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

==Works== *''Al-bahr al-muhīt fī usūl al-fiqh'' (البحر المحيط، في أصول الفقه) *''Salāsil adh-dhahab fī usūl al-fiqh'' (سلاسل الذهب في أصول الفقه) *''Al-burhān fī ʿulūm al-Qur'ān'' (البرهان في علوم القرآن) *''Iʿlam 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) <ref>Sofia Abdur Rehman [https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/26060/1/Sofia%20Rehman%20PhD.pdf ʿĀ’isha’s Corrective of the Companions: A Translation and Critical Ḥadīth Study]</ref> *''At-tadhkirah fī al-ahādīth al-mushtaharah'' (التذكرة في الأحاديث المشتهرة) *''Risāla fī maʿnī kalimat fī at-Tawhid (lā ilaha illallah)'' (رسالة في معني كلمة التوحيد (لا إله إلا الله *''Al-manthūr fī al-qawāʿid fiqh ash-Shāfiʿiyyah'' (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. *''Takhrīj ahādīth ash-sharh al-kabīr li ar-Rāfiʿī'' (تخريج أحاديث الشرح الكبير للرافعي) *''Al-ghurar as-sāfir fīmā yahtāju ilaihi al-musāfir'' (الغرر السافر فيما يحتاج إليه المسافر)

== See also == * List of Ash'aris and Maturidis

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:1344 births Category:1392 deaths Category:14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Category:Asharis Category:Hadith scholars Category:Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Category:Sunni fiqh scholars Category:Shafi'is Category:Sharia judges Category:Theologians from the Mamluk Sultanate Category:14th-century jurists