Ibn Mufliḥ al-Maqdisī, in full "Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muflih ibn Muhammad ibn Mufarraj al-Ramini al-Maqdisi" (710-763 AH/1310-1362 CE), was one of the leading authorities in

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Law and one of the most prolific writers of the Ḥanbalī school of his period. He is a jurisconsult who stands at the head of a large family of jurisconsults, who survived until the seventeenth century. He received his tutelage amongst several prominent Hanbali figures, including

Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Taymiyya (; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328)Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001/acref-9780195125580-e-959 was a Sunni Muslim ulama, ...

. Ibn Muflih married the daughter of the Hanbalis Qadi al-Qudat Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mardāwī (700-769/1300-1367) and had seven children from this marriage, five boys and two girls. The similarity of some names amongst the descendants of Ibn Muflih is liable to lead to confusion, especially as regards those named Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, of whom there are five. After a life of writing and teaching in Damascus in three Hanbali

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s, al-D̲j̲awziyya, al-Ṣāḥibiyya and al-ʿUmariyya, he died in 763/1362.

Works

He gave particular attention to the juristic preferences of Ibn Taymiyah. His extant works have preserved much that has been lost of earlier Ḥanbali works, notably his Ādāb s̲h̲arʿīyya (3 volumes, Cairo 1348/1930), which contains many excerpts of Kitāb al-Funūn of

Ibn Aqil Ibn Aqil (1040–1119) was an Islamic scholar and theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. He was trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school for eleven years under scholars such as the Qadi Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra'. Despite this, Ibn Aqil was forced in ...

. His work on legal methodology, Kitāb Uṣūl al-fiḳh. Kitāb al-Furūʿ (3 volumes, 1339/1921) is one of the most important Hanbalī works for the establishment of the true legal doctrine of

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. * ''Usool al-Fiqh li-Ibn Muflih''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn Muflih, Muhammad 1310 births 1362 deaths Atharis Syrian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Proto-Salafists Muslim scholars of Islamic jurisprudence Hanbalis 14th-century jurists People from Tulkarm Governorate