Ahmad Muhammad Shakir ( ar, أحمد محمد شاكر, Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir) (January 29, 1892,

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– June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian

Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

. He is the son of Muḥammad Shākir ibn Aḥmad, an Islamic scholar of

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and elder brother of Mahmud Muhammad Shakir, a writer and journalist. As editor, Shākir's Cairo publication, from 1937 in 5 volumes, provided the standard topical classification of the hadith

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for Sunan at-Tirmidhi. The work was subject to many reprints.''Hadith and the Quran'', Encyclopedia of the Quran, Brill

Positions held

He graduated from and worked at

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and retired in 1951. Among the positions that he held was that of vice-chairman of the Supreme Shariah Court in

Works

* ''al-Ba'ith al-Hathith'': his explanation of Ibn Kathir's ''Ikhtisaar 'Uloom al-Hadith'', an abridgement of the ''Muqaddimah'' in

hadith terminology Hadith terminology ( ar, مصطلح الحديث, muṣṭalaḥu l-ḥadīth) is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings (''hadith'') attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic fi ...

* ''

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal ''Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal'' ( ar, مسند أحمد بن حنبل) is a collection of musnad hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 AH/855 AD) to whom the Hanbali fiqh (legislation) is attributed. Description It is one ...

'': his footnotes to approximately the first third of

Ahmad ibn Hanbal Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...

's large collection of

* ''Jaami' al-Bayyaan'', commonly referred to as Tafsir al-Tabari: footnotes to

Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari ( ar, أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري), more commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Muslim historian and scholar from Amol, Tabaristan. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari ...

's explanation of the Quran; incomplete * ''

Sunan al-Tirmidhi Jami at-Tirmidhi ( ar, جامع الترمذي), also known as Sunan at-Tirmidhi, is one of "the six books" ('' Kutub al-Sittah'' - the six major hadith collections). It was collected by Al-Tirmidhi. He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H. ...

'': his footnotes to about the first third of this hadith collection * '' al-Muhalla'': footnotes to the ''fiqh'' book of

ibn Hazm Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ( ar, أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم; also sometimes known as al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī; 7 November 994 – 15 August 1064Ibn Hazm. ' (Preface). Tr ...

* ''al-'Aqidah al-Tahaawiyyah'': editing and footnotes to the famous book of Sunni creed by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi * Umdah al-Tafsir'': abridgement of ''

Tafsir ibn Kathir ''Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm'' better known as ''Tafsir Ibn Kathir'' is the tafsir by Ibn Kathir (died 774 AH). It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science of interpretation of the Quran. It also includes jurispru ...

''; incomplete

References

External links

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