al-Shihab al-Khafaji (Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar)

الشهاب الخفاجي

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar, Abu al-'Abbas al-Khafaji of Cairo, a Hanafi judge, and a prolific author on literature and language, the leading writer of his time. His works include Nasim al-Riyad, a commentary on al-Qadi 'Iyad's al-Shifa'; 'Inayat al-Qadi wa-Kifayat al-Radi, a gloss on al-Baydawi's Quran commentary; and Shifa' al-'Alil on foreign words in Arabic. The heading prints the dates in reverse; this entry reads them as 979 to 1069 AH. ¹