IMAM SAKHAWI

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi was a reputable Muslim hadith scholar and historian.

Biography

Imam al-Sakhawi was born in 831 Hijri/ 1438 CE in the village of Sakha in Egypt . He was the foremost student of Ibn Hajar Asqalani and a great jurist, historian, and hadith master. He traveled throughout the Islamic world, to Makkah, Madina, Damascus, and throughout Syria; ultimately he returned to Cairo where he taught hadith.

His Teachers

Some of his teachers are:

• Ibn Hajar Asqalani

• Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Hishi al-Halabi al-Shafi`i

• Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Madani al-Maraghi

• Thiqat al-Din Abu al-`Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-`Uqbi 1

His Works

• Al-Tuhfah al-latifah fi Tarikh al-Madinah al-Sharifah

• Fath al-Mugeeth bi Sharh Alfiyat al-Hadith

• Al-Daw' al-lami` li ahli al-Qarni al-Tasi

• Al-Jawahir wa al-Durar fi Tarjamat Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar (al-Asqalani)

• "Al-Maqasid al-Hasanah"

• "Ashratu Sa'ah"

• Al-riḥlah al-Ḥalabīyah wa tarājimihā

• Al-riḥlah al-Makkīyah

• Al-riḥlah al-Sakandarīyah

• Al-baladaniyat al-alīyāt

• Bughyat al-rāwī bi-man akhadha anhu al-Sakhawi or Al-imtinān bi-shuyūkh Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman

His Students

Badr al-Din Hussayn ibn Siddiq al-Yamani al-Ahdal 1

References

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