Burhān al-Dīn Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Abī Bakr bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī
[ ( ar, برهان الدين المرغيناني) was an ]Islamic scholar
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of the Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...
school of jurisprudence. He was born in Marghinan near Farghana
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in 530/1135 (in present day Uzbekistan) He died in 593/1197. He is best known as the author of '' al-Hidayah'', which is considered to be one of the most influential compendia of Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...
jurisprudence (''fiqh
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Life
Al-Marghanini performed the Hajj
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and visited Medina
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in the year 544 AH. He died on the 14th of Dhu'l-Hijjah in the year 593 AH one report indicates 596 AH and was buried in Samarqand
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Works
Al-Marghinani works (some extant and others known only from literary references) include:
*''Nashr al-madhhab''
*''Kitab manasik al-hajj''
*''Kitab fi-l-fara'id'' (also known as ''Fara'id al-‘Uthmani'')
*''Kitab al-tajnis wa-l-mazid'' (collection of fatwas)
*''Mukhtarat al-nawazil'' (collection of fatwas, also known as ''Mukhtarat majmu` al-nawazil'' and ''Mukhtar al-fatawa'')
*''Mazid fi furu‘ al-hanafiyya''
*A commentary on al-Shaybani
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī ( ar, أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab jurist and a dis ...
's ''al-Jami‘ al-kabir''
*''Kitab bidayat al-mubtadi'' (his principle work, based on al-Quduri's ''Mukhtasar'' and al-Shaybani's ''al-Jami‘ al-saghir'')
*''Kifayat al-muntaha'' (unfinished 8-volume commentary on his own ''Kitab bidayat al-mubtadi'' )
* '' Al-Hidayah'' ("The Guidance"), a work on Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...
law and an abridgement of his commentary on Muhammad al-Shaybani
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī ( ar, أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab jurist and a di ...
's ''al-Jami‘ al-Saghir''.
Teachers
Al-Marghinani's most important teachers were:
* Najm al-din Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi,[ author of al-‘Aqa’id al-Nasafiyyah fi al-Tauhid;
* Sadr al-Shahid Husam al-Din Umar bin Abd al-Aziz,][ the commentator of Adab al-Qadi, the most popular book of Imam Khassaf which contains the Islamic Legal and Judicial System.
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See also
* Al-Zarnuji
* Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam
* List of Hanafis
The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic madhab followed by the section of Contemporary living Hanafi scholars, in chronological order:
*Abu Hanifa (d. 767)
*Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797)
*Abu Yusuf (d ...
* List of Islamic scholars
References
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1197 deaths
Hanafi fiqh scholars
Maturidis
Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Transoxanian Islamic scholars
Sharia judges
12th-century jurists