Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Review
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Life in time
Summary
Al-Shashi al-Mustazhiri, shaykh of the Shafi'is; he held the Nizamiyya chair at Baghdad, studied under Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi and Ibn al-Sabbagh, and the headship of the madhhab ended with him after his elders died out; students called him 'the Junayd' for his scrupulosity. 1
His epithet and death
He composed al-Hilya for the caliph al-Mustazhir — hence the epithet — and his al-Shafi, a commentary on al-Shirazi's al-Shamil, runs to twenty volumes; he died in Shawwal 507 and was buried beside Shaykh Abu Ishaq. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 496-497
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Shashi al-Mustazhiri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-shashi-al-mustazhiri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.