Salih al-Buhuti

Salih ibn Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Buhuti was an inheritance scholar, an Egyptian Azhari Hanbali, born and died at Cairo in 1121 AH (1709 CE); the nisba refers to Buhut in the Gharbiyya province of Egypt. ¹

He wrote an alfiyya on inheritance covering the four schools, called 'Umdat al-Farid, which Ibrahim ibn Abd Allah al-Faridi commented under the title al-'Adhb al-Fa'id; an alfiyya on Shafi'i fiqh; Nazm al-Kafi; and glosses and marginalia. ¹