Abu Uthman al-Sabuni

Abu Uthman al-Sabuni
أبو عثمان الصابوني
TitleShaykh al-Islām[1]
Al-Ḥāfiẓ
Personal
Born983 CE
Herat
Died1057 (aged 73–74)
Nishapur
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
RegionKhorasan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari[2][3]
Main interest(s)Aqidah, Fiqh, Hadith, Tafsir
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Al-Sabuni, Ismail bin Abdal-Rahman bin Ahmad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Amir, Abu Uthman al-Sabuni al-Shafi'i[4] also known as Abu Uthman al-Sabuni (Arabic: أبو عثمان الصابوني), was a Sunni scholar known for being the leading hadith expert in Khorasan, a jurist of great authority particularly in the Shafi'i school, a Qur'anic exegete, theologian, preacher, and orator. The Sunnis of his time called him the Shaykh al-Islām, and when they used this word they did not mean anyone else. He was eloquent in dialect, broad in knowledge, and was fluent in both Persian and Arabic.[5][6][7] Al-Bayhaqi said: "He was the true Imam of the Muslims and the real Shaykh of Islam."[8]

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  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. 94-96. ISBN 9786144962350.
  3. ^ Gibril Fouad Haddad (2015). The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams & Hadith Masters. As-Sunnah Foundation of America. p. 130-131.
  4. ^ Senturk, Recep (2005). Narrative Social Structure Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network, 610-1505. Stanford University Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780804752077.
  5. ^ Richards, D.S. (4 April 2014). The Annals of the Saljuq Turks Selections from Al-Kamil Fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn Al-Athir. Taylor & Francis. p. 116. ISBN 9781317832553.
  6. ^ Lois Beck, Guity Nasha (2003). Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. University of Illinois Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780252071218.
  7. ^ "Al-Alam, Al-Zarkali, Part 1, p. 317" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 16 December 2020.
  8. ^ Gibril Fouad Haddad (2 May 2015). "Abu Uthman al-Sabuni (373 AH – 449 AH, 73 Years Old)". The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams & Hadith Masters. As-Sunnah Foundation of America. pp. 167–168.