Abu Ishaq al-Isfara'ini | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | AH 337 (948/949) |
| Died | AH 418 (1027/1028)[4] |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Region | Khorasan |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi`i[1] |
| Creed | Ash'ari[1][2][3] |
| Main interest(s) | Aqidah, Kalam, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, Tafsir, Arabic |
| Occupation | Muhaddith, Scholar |
| Muslim leader | |
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| Background |
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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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.