Muhyi al-Din Abu Sa'd al-Nisaburi

محيي الدين أبو سعد النيسابوري

c. January 1155 CE · Ramadan 549 AH

Muhammad ibn Yahya, the allama Abu Sa'd of Nishapur, Muhyi al-Din — shaykh of the Shafi'is and al-Ghazali's companion; the madhhab's headship in Khurasan ended with him, jurists sought him from every land, and his works include the Muhit commentary on the Wasit; he died a martyr at the hands of the Ghuzz in Ramadan aged seventy-two, elegised by many including Ali al-Bayhaqi ¹.

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Muhammad b. Yahya, the scholar Abu Sa'd al-Naysaburi, Muhyi'l-Din — shaykh of the Shafi'is and companion of al-Ghazali; to him came the headship of the madhhab in Khurasan, jurists sought him from the lands, and he composed works including al-Muhit, a commentary on al-Wasit. He died in Ramadan a martyr at the hands of the Ghuzz at seventy-two, mourned by a company including 'Ali al-Bayhaqi. ¹

The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Bayhaqiyya of Nishapur, the earliest madrasa whose report is preserved in Islam: al-Maqrizi holds that the people of Nishapur were the first recorded as building a madrasa; al-Subki and al-Suyuti cited it to rebut al-Dhahabi's claim that Nizam al-Mulk founded the first madrasas, for it stood before Nizam al-Mulk was born.

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