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Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam
Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (Arabic: الكمال بن الهمام) was a prominent Egyptian[5] Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi.[6] Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance (in Arabic, known as 'ilm al-fara'id, or 'the science of [ancestral] shares'), mathematics, and music.[7][8][9]
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He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.[10]
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Name
He is Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahid ibn 'Abd al-Hamid ibn Mas'ud al-Siwasi, then al-Iskandari, known and often referred to as Ibn al-Humam.
Life
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and studied in Cairo as well as Aleppo.He was born in Alexandria and grew up and died in Cairo.[11] He was appointed head shaykh of the Khanaqah Shaykhuniyyah in Cairo in 1443.[12][9]
Teachers
He studied under many notable scholars, among them are:[13]
- 'Izz al-Din ibn Jama'a (d. 819/1416).
- Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d. 825/1449).
- Wali al-Din al-'Iraqi (d. 826/1423) the son of Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi.
- Badr al-Din al-'Ayni (d. 855/1451).
Students
Among his celebrated students are:[14][15]
- Sharaf al-Din Yahya al-Munawi (d. 871/1467) (whose great-grandson 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi would write a commentary on al-Suyuti's Al-Jami' al-Saghir titled Fayd al-Qadir).
- Ibn Amir al-Hajj (d. 879/1474).
- Ibn Qutlubugha (d. 879/1474).
- Badr al-Din Abu al-Yusr Muhammad ibn al-Ghars (d. 894/1488).
- Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi (d. 902/1497).
- Kamal al-Din ibn Abi Sharif (d. 905-906/1499-1500).
- Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911/1505).
- Zakariyya al-Ansari (d. 926/1520).
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Books
Among his well-known writings are:
- Fath al-Qadeer lil-'Ajiz al-Faqeer (Arabic: فتح القدير للعاجز الفقير).[6]
- Al-Musayara fi al-'Aqaid al-Munjiya fi al-Akhira (Arabic: المسايرة في العقائد المنجية في الآخرة), a Maturidi theological treatise that follows the sequence of Imam al-Ghazali's tract on dogmatic theology called al-Risala al-Qudsiyya (The Jerusalem Epistle); hence, the name al-Musāyarah (the Pursuit).[16]
- Zad al-Faqeer (Arabic: زاد الفقير), a treatise on the rulings of prayer and purification.
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