At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
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Life in time
Summary
Shaykh Zayn al-Din ibn Ibrahim al-Misri al-Hanafi, known as Ibn Nujaym. Ibn al-Imad described him as "the imam, the learned scholar, the ocean of understanding, unique of his age, rare of his time, the pillar of working scholars, the model of the excellent and skilled, and the seal of the researchers and the issuers of opinions." He took from the scholar Qasim ibn Qutlubugha, al-Burhan al-Karaki, al-Amin ibn Abd al-'Al and others. 1.
Works
From the beginning of his career he wrote treatises, cases and incidents in Hanafi jurisprudence. Among his works that resounded in the school are: a commentary on the Kanz, which he called al-Bahr al-Ra'iq, sharh Kanz al-Daqa'iq, carried to the end of the book of hire; the book al-Ashbah wal-Naza'ir; a commentary on al-Manar in the foundations of law; Lubb al-Usul, an abridgement of Tahrir al-Usul by Ibn al-Humam; al-Fawa'id al-Zayniyya in Hanafi jurisprudence, in which he reached more than a thousand rules; a gloss on al-Hidaya; and a commentary on Jami' al-Fusulayn. 1.
Death
He died in the forenoon of a Wednesday in Rajab 970 AH. 1.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 358
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