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Abdullah bin Abdul Latif bin Ahmad bin Mahammad bin Abi Bakr bin Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen el-Mohib Abu el-Tayeb bin el-Baha Abi el-Baqa bin el-Shihab Abu el-Abbas el-Sulami el-Mahli el-Shafi'i bin el-Emam (; 1386 – 1442), commonly known as El-Mohib bin el-Emam (), was an
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judge and religious scholar from the Egyptian
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Early life and education

El-Mohib bin el-Emam was born in one of the houses of the el-Emam family in the city of the
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, Egyptian Sultanate, in the year 1386 in a house of knowledge, as is the custom in most of the homes of the el-Emam family. His father was the judge of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Judge Abdul Latif bin el-Emam, and he was a great and famous religious scholar, and his brother was the judge of
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, Judge Abu Bakr bin el-Emam. El-Mohib bin el-Emam grew up with a good religious upbringing. He recited the
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and recited it to Abi Amr Ali Al-Shihab Al-Nashrati Al-Haysob. Then he made a pilgrimage to the Sacred house of Allah with his brother Abu Bakr bin el-Emam and his father when he was 16 years old in the year 1402. He also studied and stayed at the Kaaba for some time. He studied the Alfiat al-Hadith by al-Hafidh al-'Iraqi and Matan Ash Shatibiyyah by Abu Muhammad Al-Shatibi. After that, El-Mohib bin el-Emam returned to El-Mahalla El-Kubra, where he studied
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and studied under Al-Baha Abu Al-Baqa Al-Shishini Al-Qadi, Al-Shihab Al-Barini and others, and in grammar, he studied under Al-Badr Hussein Al-Maghribi and others. He would frequent
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to seek knowledge and teach, and among his teachers were Al-Shihab Al-Wasiti and others. El-Mohib became one of the greatest and most famous Egyptian religious scholars of his time. He was a scholar of
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, and other legal sciences.


Career

In the year 1426, Judge El-Mohib bin el-Emam moved to Cairo to participate in the campaign of judges and sheikhs calling on all Egyptians to volunteer in the war to conquer Cyprus. After that, El-Mohib bin el-Emam visited
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and visited the cities of
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and
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. In Hebron, he got to know Sheikh Al-Shihab Al-Mardini. Then he visited
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, and others, along with Al-Biqa’i and others, and he frequented them before that. After El-Mohib bin el-Emam became one of the most famous judges and scholars of Egypt, the Sultan of Egypt el-Ashraf Barsbay, as deputy to Chief Justice Galal el-Din el-Balqini, and he became the judge of El-Mahalla El-Kubra.


Death

After a great academic career and spreading justice and goodness, Judge El-Muhib bin el-Emam died in the year 1442 in the capital of the Egyptian Sultanate, Cairo, during the reign of Sultan
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Legacy

Historian Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi says about Judge El-Mohib bin el-Emam:
“He was trustworthy, good, and humble. He represented the judiciary in some of the lands of Mahalla on behalf of Galal el-Balqini and those after him. Ibn Fahd and al-Buqa’i read to him and described him as the sheikh, imam, scholar, and righteous person and others. He died on Wednesday, the second of
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h in the year 64, in Cairo, may God have mercy on him and us.”


See also

* Abu Uday el-Masry bin el-Emam. * Alaa el-Din bin el-Emam.


References

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