Ibn al-Salah

For the 12th-century physician and astronomer, see Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sari Ibn al-Salah.
Ibn Aṣ-Ṣalāḥ
Title"the Shaykh of the Shafi'i scholars."
Personal
Born1181 CE/577 AH
Died1245 (aged 63–64)/643
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari[1][2]
Main interest(s)Tafsir
Hadith
Shafi'i Fiqh
Notable work(s)Introduction to the Science of Hadith
Muslim leader
Influenced by
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Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd il-Raḥmān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shahrazūrī (Arabic: أبو عمر عثمان بن عبد الرحمن صلاح الدين الكرديّ الشهرزوريّ) (c. 1181 CE/577 AH – 1245/643), commonly known as Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, was a Kurdish[3] Shafi'i hadith specialist and the author of the seminal Introduction to the Science of Hadith. He was born in the village of Shahrakhan in Erbil, Kurdistan and was raised in Mosul and then resided in Damascus, where he died.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Ahl al-Sunna: The Ash'aris - The Testimony and Proofs of the Scholars". almostaneer.com (in Arabic). Indonesia: Dar al-Ihsan Institute for Islamic Education. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021.
  2. ^ Yassin Ghanem Jassim al-Aridi (2024). Classes of Ash'aris, notables of the people of the Sunnah and the community. Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya. p. 290. ISBN 9786144962350.
  3. ^ Reid, Megan H. (2013). Law and Piety in Medieval Islam. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780521889599.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Tabaqat was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Robson, J. "Ibn al- Ṣalāḥ". Encyclopedia of Islam. Second Edition. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3353.