Ibn al-Salah
Ibn Aṣ-Ṣalāḥ | |
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| Title | "the Shaykh of the Shafi'i scholars." |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 577 AH (1181/1182 CE) |
| Died | 1245 (aged 63–64) |
| Main interest(s) | Tafsir Hadith Shafi'i Fiqh |
| Notable work(s) | Introduction to the Science of Hadith |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Muslim leader | |
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Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd il-Raḥmān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shahrazūrī (Arabic: أبو عمر عثمان بن عبد الرحمن صلاح الدين الكرديّ الشهرزوريّ) (c. 1181 CE/577 AH – 1245/643), commonly known as Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith specialist and the author of the seminal Introduction to the Science of Hadith. He was born in the village of Sharazoor in Slemani, Kurdistan and was raised in Mosul and then resided in Damascus, where he died.