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Al-Imam Abu Al-Hasan Sayfud-din Al-Amidi

Posted by Shafiifiqh.com on Aug 31, 2009 in 551 to 650, Biographies | 0 comments

علي بن أبي علي بن محمد بن سالم الثعلبي الإمام أبو الحسن سيف الدين

‘Alī ibn Abī ‘Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Sālim Ath-Tha’labī, Al-Imām Abū Al-Hasan Sayfud-dīn Al-Āmidī

Born in the year 551 A.H, in the city of Āmid (in current day Turkey) he memorized Qur’ān as well as memorizing the books of Hanbalī fiqh. Then he traveled to Baghdad and learned different Qira’āt of the Qur’ān.

He learned fiqh beneath Ash-Shaykh Abīl Fat-h. ibn Al-Mannī Al-Hanbalī (أبي الفتح ابن المنِّي الحنبلي). He heard hadīth from Abīl Fat-h. ibn Shātīl (أبي الفتح بن شاتيل). He then converted to the Madh-hab of Imām Ash-Shāfi’ī (Taqiy-ad-dīn As-Subkī states in his Tabaqāt: ثم انتقل إلى مذهب الشافعي).

He then became a disciple of Abāl Qāsim ibn Fad.lān (studying Shāfi’ī fiqh). He then excelled in khilāf (i.e. comparative fiqh), law, debate, philosophy, Usūl and many other intellectual fields. He then traveled to Egypt and then he returned to teaching the Shāfi’ī guild. While there a group of scholars became envious and began accusing him of evil things. He had to secretly leave Cairo and take refuge in Hamāh, establishing himself therein. Then he traveled to Damascus. There he taught at the Al-‘Azīziyyah Madrasah (school). He died there in the year 631 A.H. His most famous book is called, “Al-Ih.kām fī Usūl Al-Ah.kām”. May Allāh shed his mercy upon Imām Al Āmidī for his resoluteness in teaching Islām, even when he was slandered and abused. Āmīn!