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Al-Imam al-Faqih Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hajar al-Haytami

Posted by Shafiifiqh.com on Oct 25, 2009 in 851 to 950, Biographies, Featured | 3 comments

Al-Imām al-Faqih Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hajar al-Haytami

Shihab al-Din Abu al-’Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Hajr al-Haytami al-Makki al-Ansari. He is al-Azhari in scholarship, al-Ash’ari in doctrine, al-Junaidi in the tasawwuf path, a Hadith master, and a brilliant scholar of in-depth applications of Sacred Law. He was born in the end of 909 H in Abu Haytam, western Egypt. He was the Shāfi‘ī  Imām of his time.