Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani | |
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ابن حجر العسقلاني | |
Tomb of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo | |
| Title | Shaykh al-Islam Hafiz |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 18 February 1372 |
| Died | 2 February 1449 (aged 76) Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate |
| Resting place | City of the Dead, Cairo, Egypt |
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| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Muslim leader | |
Influenced | |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Aḥmad أَحْمَد |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن مَحْمُود |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū al-Faḍl أَبُو ٱلْفَضْل |
| Epithet (Laqab) | Ibn Ḥajar ٱبْن حَجَر |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | Al-ʿAsqalānī ٱلْعَسْقَلَانِيّ |
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Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (Arabic: ابن حجر العسقلاني; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari. He is known by the honorific epithets Hafiz al-Asr "Hafiz of the Time", Shaykh al-Islam "Shaykh of Islam", and Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith "Commander of the Faithful in Hadith".