Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥalīmī al-Qāḍī al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalīm al-Bukhārī al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī () also known as Al-Halimi (338 AH/949–50 CE - 403 AH/1012–3 CE), was a highly influential

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scholar and regarded as the foremost leading

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, traditionist, and

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. He was one of the hadith masters who wrote significant works and was a prominent figure in the

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school of law and among the early

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Biography

Al-Halimi was born in the year (338/949–50 AH) to a free woman from

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and his half-brother, Abū l-Faḍl al-Ḥasan, was born the same year to a female Turkic slave. The place where Al-Halimi was born is disputed. It was said that he was born in

and was raised in

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. Other narration states he was born and raised in

. He studied

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under several masters, including Abū Bakr b. Khanb (not Ḥabīb) and others. He studied jurisprudence under Abu Bakr al-Qaffal al-Marwazi and Abu Bakhr al-Udani. After mastering these sacred sciences, he became an alim of high consideration and authority in Transoxiana. He was known for his brilliant researching skills and treating points of the Shafi'i law. When he moved to

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, he taught hadith scholars and others who gave narrations under his authority such as Al-Hakim and other hadith narrators.

Death

He died in the year of 403 (1012 CE).

Influence

Many scholars who came after him would often quote him pertaining matters on creed and Usul al-dín (principles of the faith).

Al-Bayhaqi Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was a Sunni scholar widely known for being the foremost leading hadith master in his age, leading authority in th ...

frequently transmitted his scholarship in his Shu'ab al-Iman and Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat.

Reception

The Shafi'i historian,

Al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Atharism, Athari ...

refers to Imam al-Halimi as the "''Head of the Mutakallimīn and Muḥaddithīn''" indicating his leadership among the practitioners of

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and scholars of

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. Al-Dhahabi also calls him "''Shaykh al-Shāfiʿiyyah''" indicating his leadership among the jurists in the Shafi'i school.

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