Taqi al-Din al-Futuhi, author of al-Muntaha

تقي الدين الفتوحي صاحب المنتهى

c. 1571 CE · c. 979 AH

Taqi al-Din al-Futuhi the Hanbali — author of al-Muntaha and al-Muntaqa on Musnad Ahmad; Ibn Hajar drew on and supplemented him heavily in al-Matalib al-'Aliya and al-Muntaha/al-Insaf 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar · writer
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Arabia
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

1450147515001525155015751600162516501675 c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca · Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti · Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani)

Scripture and its sciences

Summary

Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Futuhi al-Hanbali; from him and from his book al-Muntaqa many took additions to Ahmad's Musnad. Hafiz Ibn Hajar supplied supplements on it in his al-Matalib al-'aliya, and supplemented it greatly again in al-Muntaha and al-Insaf. 1

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 388
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Taqi al-Din al-Futuhi, author of al-Muntaha”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/taqi-al-din-al-futuhi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
Related

The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.