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The Imam Abu Bakr Al-Qaffal "Al-Kabir" Ash-Shashi

Posted by Shafiifiqh.com on Aug 31, 2009 in 251 to 350, Biographies, Featured | 1 comment

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He is the scholar of Quranic exegesis (tafsir), the master of Hadith, the Usuli, the Grammarian and poet, the Imam of the Shāfi’is and the Mujahid Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Isma’il Ash-Shāshī, well known as “Al-Qaffāl Al-Kabīr”. He is heavily relied upon in works of fiqh produced by the Imams of the Shafi’i school. He is known as “Al-Qaffal Al-Kabīr – or the older Qaffāl” because of Al-Qaffāl As-Saghīr (the younger) who is Abu Bakr Abdullah ibn Ahmad Al-Marwazi, also a Shāfi’i jurist and born some 400 years after our Qaffāl.

Al-Qaffāl Ash-Shāshī was born in the year 291 A.H corresponding with 904 CE in the city of Ash-Shāsh. Ash-Shāsh is what is currently known as Tashkent Uzbekistan.