Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence ( fiqh).[ al-Nukat 'ala al-'Umdah fi'l Ahkam (النكت على العمدة في الأحكام) Imam al-Zarkashi] He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known.[Jalajel, David S. (2017) Women and Leadership in Islamic Law] One of his most famous works that has survived is al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.
Teachers
Az-Zarkashī studied
hadīth (one of various reports describing the words, actions, or habits of the prophet
Muhammad) in
Damascus with
Ibn Kathir (d. 1373),
fiqh and
Usul al-fiqh in
Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), and
Quran and
fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi.
[Rippin, A. (2012), "al-Zarkas̲h̲ī", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: , 1960–2007]
Disciples
His notable students included Shamsuddīn al-Barmaid (d. 830 AH) and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimashqi (d. 831 AH).
Works
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Al-bahr al-muhīt fī usūl al-fiqh (البحر المحيط، في أصول الفقه)
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Salāsil adh-dhahab fī usūl al-fiqh (سلاسل الذهب في أصول الفقه)
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Al-burhān fī ʿulūm al-Qur'ān (البرهان في علوم القرآن)
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Iʿlam as-sājid bi-ahkām al-masājid (إعلام الساجد بأحكام المساجد)
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"The Corrective: ʿĀ’isha’s Rectification of the Companions" Al-Ijāba limā istadrakatahu ‘Ā’isha ‘alā as-Sahāba ( الإجابة لما استدركته عائشة على الصحابة)
[Sofia Abdur Rehman ʿĀ’isha’s Corrective of the Companions: A Translation and Critical Ḥadīth Study]
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At-tadhkirah fī al-ahādīth al-mushtaharah (التذكرة في الأحاديث المشتهرة)
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Risāla fī maʿnī kalimat fī at-Tawhid (lā ilaha illallah) (رسالة في معني كلمة التوحيد (لا إله إلا الله
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Al-manthūr fī al-qawāʿid fiqh ash-Shāfiʿiyyah (المنثور في القواعد فقه شافعي): is considered by many scholars to be among the foremost compendiums of legal principles in the Shāfi'i fiqh. The text includes over 100 principles that are listed alphabetically.
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Takhrīj ahādīth ash-sharh al-kabīr li ar-Rāfiʿī (تخريج أحاديث الشرح الكبير للرافعي)
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Al-ghurar as-sāfir fīmā yahtāju ilaihi al-musāfir (الغرر السافر فيما يحتاج إليه المسافر)
See also
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List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
