Zayn al-Din ibn al-Munir

زين الدين بن المنير

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Mansur ibn Abi al-Qasim, Abu al-Hasan Zayn al-Din ibn al-Munir of Alexandria, a Maliki jurist and hadith scholar, brother of the judge Nasir al-Din ibn al-Munir. He studied law with his brother and with Abu Amr ibn al-Hajib, and after his brother he held the judgeship of Alexandria. He was counted among those qualified to weigh opinions and to exercise independent reasoning within the Maliki school. His works include a commentary on al-Bukhari's Sahih, al-Mutawari on the chapter titles of al-Bukhari, and glosses on Ibn al-Battal's commentary. The book's heading gives the dates 629-695 AH. 1

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar · judge
Counted among
Sunni (Maliki)
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Mansur ibn Abi al-Qasim, Abu al-Hasan Zayn al-Din ibn al-Munir of Alexandria, a Maliki jurist and hadith scholar, brother of the judge Nasir al-Din ibn al-Munir. He studied law with his brother and with Abu Amr ibn al-Hajib, and after his brother he held the judgeship of Alexandria. He was counted among those qualified to weigh opinions and to exercise independent reasoning within the Maliki school. His works include a commentary on al-Bukhari's Sahih, al-Mutawari on the chapter titles of al-Bukhari, and glosses on Ibn al-Battal's commentary. The book's heading gives the dates 629-695 AH. 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. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.6803
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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.