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Baha' al-Din al-Qifti, qadi of Isna

بهاء الدين القفطي قاضي أسنا

c. 1203 CE · c. 600 AH – c. 1298 CE · 697 AH

Isna

Isna's qadi — Ibn Daqiq al-Id among his pupils; the Sunni source says he 'stood for the Sunna' in a town 'stuffed with rawafid' who plotted to kill him 1.

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar · teacher
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Kamal al-Fuwayra, musnid of Iraq · Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz · Ibn al-Qawwas, musnid of the age · Najm al-Din ibn Shabib · al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age

Place in the story

    sunni-shafii (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    Baha' al-Din al-Qifti the qadi; he studied fiqh under al-Majd al-Qushayri and usul under al-Shams al-Isfahani at Qus, and met 'Izz al-Din Ibn 'Abd al-Salam and al-Zaki al-Mundhiri at Cairo. 1

    His judgeship

    He held the judgeship of Isna and the teaching of its Mu'izziyya — Isna being, per the source, packed with Rafida — and stood for the Sunna until the Rafida resolved to kill him; God shielded him. Taqi al-Din Ibn Daqiq al-'Id was among those who profited by him; he wrote many books, his time divided between recitation, teaching and composition. 1

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    Studied under
    الشيخ عز الدين بن عبد السلام
    Died in
    Isna

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    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 768-769
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    islam.museum contributors. “Baha' al-Din al-Qifti, qadi of Isna”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/baha-al-din-al-qifti/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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