Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
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Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn `Ali ibn Thabit ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Shafi`i (1020-1081), A.K.A al-Khatib al-Baghdadi or the writer from Baghdad was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar.
Sunni view
al-Dhahabi praised him as:
- ''"the most peerless imam, erudite scholar and mufti, meticulous hadith master, scholar of his time in hadith, prolific author, and seal* of the hadith masters
Al-Qinnawji said:
- "He was a jurist whose preference went to hadith and history." (Abjad al-`Ulum (3:96))
However, he deemed weak narrations where Muhammad was quoted as predicting Abu Hanifa, and for this, Allama Yusuf, a Hanbali scholar, quoted in his work Tanwir as-sahifa from Hafiz 'Allama Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Barr (b. 978 and d. 1071 in Shatiba), Qadi of Lisbon, Portugal:
- Do not slander Abu Hanifa and do not believe those who slander him! I swear by Allahu ta'ala that I know not a person superior to him, having more wara', or being more learned than he. "Do not believe what al-Khatib al-Baghdadi said! He was antipathetic towards the 'ulama'. He slandered Abu Hanifa, Imam Ahmad and their disciples. The 'ulama' of Islam refuted al-Khatib and censured him. [link]
Works
- History of Baghdad (Arabic: Tarikh Baghdad)
See also
External links
- http://www.abc.se/~m9783/o/khtb_e.html
- http://www.abc.se/~m9783/n/vwh_e.html
- http://www.geocities.com/~abdulwahid/abuhanifah/al-imam.html
- http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v21n1/p15.html
- http://www.jannah.org/sisters/womenhadith.html
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