Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini

Abu Ishaq al-Isfara'ini
Personal
BornAH 337 (948/949)
DiedAH 418 (1027/1028)[4]
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
RegionKhorasan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi`i[1]
CreedAsh'ari[1][2][3]
Main interest(s)Aqidah, Kalam, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, Tafsir, Arabic
OccupationMuhaddith, Scholar
Muslim leader

Abu Ishaq al-Isfara'ini was a renowned Sunni scholar, jurisconsult, legal theoretician, hadith expert, Qur'anic exegete, theologian and a specialist in the Arabic language.[5] Al-Isfara'ini's scholarship was focused on the sciences of Aqidah, Hadith and Fiqh. He was the foremost leading authority in the Shafi'i school of his time.[6] He was along with Ibn Furak the chief propagator of Sunni Ash'ari theology in Nishapur at the turn of the 5th Islamic century.[1]

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  2. ^ Khalil, Mohammad Hassan (2013). Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0199945412.
  3. ^ Schmidtke, Sabine (2012). Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker. (Brill Publishers). p. 383. ISBN 978-9004243101.
  4. ^ Ephrat, Daphna (2000). A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: The Sunni 'Ulama' of Eleventh-Century Baghdad (SUNY series in Medieval Middle East History). State University of New York Press. p. 52. ISBN 079144645X.
  5. ^ Jonathan A.C. Brown (2007), The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon, p.188-190. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-9004158399.
  6. ^ Ayub, Zulfiqar (2 May 2015). THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ELITE LIVES OF THE SCHOLARS, IMAMS & HADITH MASTERS Biographies of The Imams & Scholars. Zulfiqar Ayub Publications. p. 172.