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The Imam al-Shafi'i Mausoleum in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Shafi'i eventually returned to Baghdad in 810 CE. By this time, his stature as a jurist had grown sufficiently to permit him to establish an independent line of legal speculation. The caliph al-Ma'mun is said to have offered al-Shafi'i a position as a judge, but he declined the offer. [15]
See Risala (disambiguation) for other books known as "Ar-Risala".. The Risāla by al-Shafi'i (d. 820), full title Kitab ar-Risāla fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Arabic: كتاب الرسالة في أصول الفقه, "The Book of the Treatise on the Principles of Jurisprudence"), is a seminal text on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence.
Al-Wajiz fi Fiqh al-Imam al-Shafi'i (Arabic: الوجيز في فقه الإمام الشافعي) or The Condensed in Imam Shafi’i’s Jurisprudence is a concise summary of Shafi’i Fiqh and 'Ilm al-Khilaf [] (the science of juridical disagreement) written by Imam al-Ghazali the leading juristconsult of his time.
Tabaqat al-Shāfi'iyya al-Kubra (Arabic: طبقات الشافعية الكبرى, lit. 'The Major Classes/Generations of the Shafi'is') is a voluminous encyclopedic biographical dictionary written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370), in which he presents biographies of scholars of the Shafi'i legal school in Sunni Islam, from the time of Muhammad ibn Idris al ...
The Kitāb al-Umm (Arabic: كـتـاب الأم) is the first exhaustive compendium of Islamic code of law that is used as an authoritative guide by the Shafi'i school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) within the Sunni branch of Islam. [1] The work was composed by the founder of the Shafi'i school, Imām ash-Shāfi‘ī (767–820 CE).
In several jurisprudential and theological principles, the Shafi'i Sunni school of thought is much closer to the Mu'tazila and Twelve Imam Shiites than the other three Sunni schools. [20] In the Shafi'i religion, like Ahl al-Shi'a, they honor the Ahl al-Bayt of the Prophet of Islam and emphasize their infallibility.
Imam Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man is the first of the four imams and the only taabi'i among them. He also had the opportunity to meet a number of the companions of the Prophet. Imam Malik ibn Anas was a sheikh of Imam Shafi'i. Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i was a student of Imam Malik and a sheikh of Imam Ahmad. [2]
Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (أبـو نـعـيـم الأصـفـهـانـي; full name: Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī (or al-Asfahānī) al-Ahwal al-Ash`arī al-Shāfi`ī, died 1038 CE / AH 430) was a medieval Persian [4] [5] Shafi'i scholar and one of the leading hadith scholars of his time.