- Muhammad ash-Shawkani
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Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Shawkani Full name Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Shawkani Born 1759 CE Died 1834 CE/1250 AH Era Medieval era Region Yemeni scholar School Muslim Main interests Theology Influenced byInfluencedMuhammad ash-Shawkani (1759–1834 CE [1]) was a Yemeni scholar of Islam, jurisprudent, and reformer.
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Name
His full name was Muhammad Ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Shawkani.[2] The surname "ash-Shawkani" is derived from Hijrah ash-Shawkan, which is a town outside San‘a’[3]
Biography
Born into a Zaydi Shi'a Muslim family, ash-Shawkani later on adopted the ideology within Sunni Islam and called for a return to the textual sources of the Quran and hadith. He viewed himself as a mujtahid, or authority to whom others in the Muslim community had to defer in details of religious law. Of his work issuing fatwas, ash-Shawkani stated "I acquired knowledge without a price and I wanted to give it thus."[4] Part of the fatwa-issuing work of many noted scholars typically is devoted to the giving of ordinary opinions to private questioners. Ash-Shawkani refers both to his major fatwas, which were collected and preserved as a book, and to his "shorter" fatwas, which he said "could never be counted" and which were not recorded.[5]
He is credited with developing a series of syllabi for attaining various ranks of scholarship and used a strict system of legal analysis based on Sunni thought. He insisted that any jurist who wanted to be a mujtahid fī'l-madhhab (a scholar who is qualified to exercise ijtihad within a school of Islamic law), was required to do ijtihad, which stemmed from his opposition to taqlid for a mujtahid, which he deemed to be a vice with which the Shariah had been inflicted.[6]
Imam al-Shawkani (states: "The Prophet (Allah bless him & give him peace) is alive in his grave, as has been established in the Hadith "The Prophets are alive in their graves". (See: Nayl al-Awtar, 5/101).
Works
- Nayl al-Awtar
- Fath al-Qadir, a well known tafsir (exegesis)
- al-Badr at-tali [7]
- Tuhfatu al-Dhakirin – Sharh Uddatu Hisna al-Haseen: a superb one volume commentary on the collection "Uddatu Hisna al-Haseen", on ahadith of Adhkar, by Ibn Al-Jazari (d. 833H)
- Al-Fawaid al-Majmu'ah Fil Ahadith ul Mau'zoo'ah a collection of fabricated hadith
- Irshad ul Fuhool – a book on Usul al-fiqh
See also
- List of Islamic scholars
References
- Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani by Bernard Haykel
- ^ Fatwa / What does "family" mean?
- ^ “Dogs in the Islamic Tradition and Nature” (Article Included)
- ^ al-Badr at-Taali' bi Mahaasin man Ba'd al-Qarn as-Sabi' , vol. 2 pg.214
- ^ cited in Messick, Brinkly The Calligraphic State:Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society, Berkeley 1993, p.145
- ^ cited in Messick, Brinkly The Calligraphic State:Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society, Berkeley 1993, p.150
- ^ On his call for ijtihad and opposition to taqlid, see Hallaq 1984:32–33
- ^ Fatawa of the rightly guided Imams on Mawlid
Further reading
Categories:- Muslim scholars
- 1759 births
- 1834 deaths
- Quranic exegesis scholars
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