Ibn Daqiq al-'Id
Taḳī al-Dīn Abū ’l-Fatḥ Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Wahb b. Muṭīʿ b. Abi ’l-Ṭāʿa, commonly known as '''Ibn Daqiq al-'Id''' (; 1228–1302), was a
Sunni Egyptian scholar. He is widely accounted as one of Islam's great scholars in the fundamentals of
Islamic law and belief, and was the leading authority in the
Shafi'i legal school. He was a prominent
jurist with several major works of law to his credit. He was also equally proficient in
hadith. He was a highly acclaimed
muhaddith and a prolific writer on hadith and
ilm al-rijal. He was known as the leading traditionist in his time and it is professed he was "''the most respected scholar of hadith in the thirteenth century.''" Although Ibn Daqiq al-'Id mastered Shafi'i jurisprudence under
Ibn 'Abd al-Salam, he was also well-versed in
Maliki fiqh. He served as chief
judge of the Shafi'i school in
Egypt. He was regarded as a highly esteemed and pious judge in his own day. He excelled in numerous Islamic sciences and was an authority in
Arabic language and
scholastic theology. He was also noted for his great skills in
poetry,
oratory, and
literature. According to
Taqi al-Din al-Subki, there was an
consensus among Muslims that Ibn Daqiq al-'Id "was a (absolute/autonomous
mujtahid) with complete knowledge of legal sciences" as well as the
mujaddid in the 8th Islamic century.
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