Abd al-Ghafir ibn Ismail ibn Abd al-Ghafir ibn Muhammad al-Farsi () was a renowned

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and grammarian of the highest rank. He was a student of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni. He was contemporary, and first biographer of Imam

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.Griffel, Frank (2009). Al-Ghazālī's Philosophical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Page 21 He was also the grandson of the great Imam

Al-Qushayri 'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (, ; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist, legal theoretician, commentator of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master, ...

Biography

He was born within the year 451/1058 and at the age of five, he was able to ponder the

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and might rehash the statement of creed in his local dialect (

). He considered the

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statute with incredible concentration for four years beneath Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, the author of Nihayat al-Matlab, which is a treatise on the convention of the Shafi'i school and on the focuses of contention. He was a daughter son of the Imam Abu Kasim al-Khusairi and learned from him a extraordinary amount of

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, as too from his grandmother Fatima, the girl of Abu ali ad-Dakkak, his maternal uncles Ali saad and Abu said, the children of Abu Kasim al-Kushairi, his possess guardians Abdu Abd Alla Ismail and Amat ar-Rahim al-Kushairi girl to Abdal Karim al-Kushairi and a incredible number of other instructors. He at that point cleared out

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and continued to

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, where he proceeded to meet and study under the foremost famous masters of that nation, and opened a private course of informational of students. He voyage from there to

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, and after that to

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, instructing the Hadiths and clarifying his grandfather's work, the Lataif al-Iskharat (substle Indications). On his return to Nishapur he directed as a minister, and, amid a number of a long time, he gave lessons each Monday evening within the Akil mosque; he at that point composed his various works, of which rule are the Muslim, in which he clarifies the obscure focuses of

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and does an abridgement of Al-Hakim's

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, which work he wrapped up towards the end of 518 AH; in which he explains the uncommon expressions happening within the hadiths; he composed other than numerous other instructive works. Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi died in 529/1135 in

Works

Amongst the most famous works of Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi are: * Al-Bayan al-Tareekh Nishapur (The History of Nishapur) * Al-Mufhim of Sahih-Muslim Ibn Kathir's Bidaya wal Nihaya, Under the description of Abd-Ghafir al-Farsi * Majma al-Gharaaib Fi Gharib al-Hadith (The book was printed and verified by Abdullah bin Nasser bin Muhammad Al-Qarni (Umm Al-Qura University - 1409 AH / 1989 AD))

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