Salah al-Din al-Ala'i

Khalil ibn Kaykaldi ibn Abd Allah al-'Ala'i al-Dimashqi, Abu Sa'id Salah al-Din, was a hadith scholar of merit and wide inquiry. Born and educated at Damascus, he made a long rihla, then settled at Jerusalem as teacher at the Salahiyya from 731 AH and died there in 761 AH (1359 CE). ¹

His books include al-Majmu' al-Madhhab fi Qawa'id al-Madhhab in two parts on Shafi'i fiqh; the large al-Arba'in fi A'mal al-Muttaqin; al-Washi al-Mu'allam on hadith; al-Majalis al-Mubtakara; al-Musalsalat; al-Nafahat al-Qudsiyya; Manhat al-Ra'id on inheritance; Kitab al-Mudallisin; Burhan al-Taysir on the titles of tafsir; Kashf al-Niqab 'amma rawa al-Shaykhan li-l-Ashab, an inventory of what al-Bukhari and Muslim transmit for every Companion; Itharat al-Fawa'id al-Majmu'a on hadith; Jami' al-Tahsil fi Ahkam al-Marasil; and Hukm Ikhtilaf al-Mujtahidin, among others. ¹