Abd al-Rahman al-Ajhuri

عبد الرحمن الأجهوري

Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan ibn Umar al-Ajhuri, a Maliki scholar who was also a man of letters, historian and reciter. He studied with al-Shabrawi, al-Shihab al-Nafrawi and al-Shams al-Khafi, took readings from Mustafa al-Khaliji, and taught at al-Azhar for a time in many fields; he mastered Arabic grammar, the roots of law and the readings, and was appointed to teach at the Sinnaniyya in Bulaq. His works include al-Multadh fi al-arba'a al-shudhudh, a commentary on Tashnif al-sam', and Mashariq al-anwar fi Al al-Bayt al-akhyar ¹. The book gives his death as 1198 AH.