At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · teacher
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Muhammad ibn Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Rahmat Allah, al-Ayyubi, al-Ansari, al-Dimashqi, Abu al-Barakat, known as al-Rahmati — a Hanafi jurist, a polymath of precise discernment between the explicit wording and its implication. 1 He travelled to Medina and studied under its learned men, among them the scholar Ahmad Efendi, mufti of Medina, and Muhammad Efendi Mirghani, mufti of Mecca. 1 He taught the qadi Iyad's Kitab al-Shifa in the Prophet's Mosque by order of the sultan. 1 His works include a gloss on al-Ala'i's Mukhtasar Sharh al-Tanwir, a gloss on al-Minh, and Sharh al-Tariq al-Salik ala Zubdat al-Manasik. 1 The encyclopedia dates him 1176–1250 AH. 1
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Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16247
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Rahmati”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-rahmati/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.