وجيه الدين القزويني

وجيه الدين القزويني

تقریباً 1107 عیسوی · 501 ھ – تقریباً دسمبر 1193 عیسوی · محرم 590 ھ

The learned Wajih al-Din Abu al-Khayr Ahmad b. Isma'il al-Taliqani al-Qazwini, Shafi'i jurist and preacher; b. 501, outstripped his peers at Qazwin, then came to Baghdad before 560 to teach and preach — imam in madhhab, khilaf, usul, tafsir and homiletics, his speech beloved for its sweetness; he wrote al-Inbyan on questions of the Qur'an against the Hululiyya and Jahmiyya, and became chief of the preachers — he would speak one day and Ibn al-Jawzi the next, the caliph listening from behind the curtain and the multitudes attending; he returned to Qazwin in 580 and kept to worship till he died in Muharram 590 ¹.