Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi

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birth = 843 or 853/239 AH [ [http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/Vol35/Bp019.htm Arabic Catalogue - Vol 35 ] ]
death = 935/321 AH [http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=538124 "The Best Generations" ] ]
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Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad At-Tahaawee, Imaam Abu Ja'far at-Tahaawee or simply Tahawi (843 or 853 to 935) was a famous Sunni Islamic Scholar who followed the Hanafi madhhab.

Biography

He began as a student of his maternal uncle, Muzni, a leading disciple of Imam Shafi'i. Later he joined the Hanafi school and used his knowledge in Hadith to defend that school. His monumental scholarly works, such as Sharh "Ma'ani al-Athar" and "Mushkil al-Athar" (clarifying the meaning of hadiths that seems conflicting), are encyclopedic in scope and have long been regarded as indispensable for training students of Fiqh.

He has been famous for "Aqeedat Tahawiyyah", a treatise on Aqidah and been accepted by all three schools of Sunni creed. [ [http://islamicweb.com/beliefs/creed/Aqeedatut_Tahaawiyyah.htm Islamic Belief (Al-'Aqida) ] ] It was annotated by numerous later Islamic scholars, most notably Ibn Abu al-Iz [ [http://arabic.islamicweb.com/Books/creed.asp?book=5 كتاب شرح العقيدة الطحاوية ] ] and the late Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Bin Baaz.

Works

He left behind many other works, close to forty different books [ [http://almuttaqoon.com/ar/t292.htm Imaam Abu Ja'far Ahmad At-Tahaawee (Al Muttaqoon) ] ] , amongst which are:
*"Ma'ani al-Athar"
*"Aqida al-Tahaweyah" — it contains the Aqidah of the Salaf in point form, and is very famous.
*"Sunan Ash-Shaafi'ee"
*"Mushkil Al-Athaar"
*"Ahkaam-ul-Qur'aan"
*"Al-Mukhtaar"
*"Sharh Al-Jaam'i-ul-Kabeer"
*"Sharh Al-Jaam'i-us-Sagheer"
*"Ash-Shuroot"
*"Nawaadir al-Fiqhiyyah "
*"Ikhtilaf al-‘Ulama"
*others

Legacy

The scholars of his time praised him and mentioned him as being a scholar of Hadith (Muhaddith), one whose report was reliable and an established narrator. He was viewed as a distinguished and highly proficient writer and became known as the most knowledgeable of fiqh amongst the Hanafis in Egypt. This was even though he had a share in the fiqh of all of the madhabs of fiqh and Hadith, and he knew of the various sciences of Islam.

unni views

*In his introduction to Sharh Aqida al-Tahaweyah (pages 17-19) with checking from Al-Albani and Aqida al-Tahaweyah, the author Zuhayr Shawish provides a glowing tribute to Tahaawee:

*Al-Dhahabi said in his Major History of Islam:

*Ibn Kathir said in Al Bidayah wa al-Nihayah:

ee also

*Islamic scholars

References

External links

* [http://almuttaqoon.com/ar/t292.htm]