Muhammad 'Ali al-Sabuni () (1 January, 1930 – 19 March, 2021) was a prominent
Syrian
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Hanafi
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scholar. He is probably best known for his Qur'anic exegesis entitled Safwat al-Tafasir (The Elite of Interpretations). He died at the age of 91 in Turkey's Yalova province.
Works
Sabuni authored dozens of works in various sciences including:
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Ṣafwat al-Tafāsīr'' (), his most well-known work which condenses and presents conclusions from various classical Sunni Qur'anic exegeses.
*''Al-Mawārīth fī al-Sharī‘ah al-Islāmiyyah fī Ḍaw’ al-Kitāb wa-l-Sunnah'' (), a juridical work on Islamic inheritance laws.
*''Al-Zawāj al-Islāmī al-Mubakkir Sa‘ādah wa-Ḥaṣānah'' (), a juridical work addressing contemporary concerns regarding marriage in an attempt to encourage adults to marry earlier.
*''Al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah al-Muṭahharah Qism min al-Waḥy al-Ilāhī al-Munzal'' (), a polemical work addressing criticisms about the authority of the sunnah and hadith raised by hadith-skeptical modernists and Qur'anists.
*''Al-Tibyān fī ‘Ulūm al-Qur’ān'' (), a collection of lecture notes on Qur'anic sciences covering topics such as the revelation, compilation, and exegetical tradition of the Qur'an.
*''Āmantu bi-llāh'' (), a creedal work presenting various proof texts in support of orthodox Sunni positions on Islamic eschatalogical theology.
*''Rawā’i‘ al-Bayān fī Tafsīr Āyāt al-Aḥkām''
*Sharḥ Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn (), a commentary on the hadith work
Riyad al-Salihin by
al-Nawawi
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.
*''Qabs min Nūr al-Qur’ān al-Karīm'' ()
*''Mawsū‘at al-Fiqh al-Shar‘ī al-Muyassar'' ()
*''Tafsīr al-Wāḍiḥ al-Muyassar'' ()
*''Al-Mahdī al-Nabawī al-Ṣaḥīḥ fī Ṣalāt al-Tarāwīḥ'' ()
*''Al-Nubuwwah wa-l-Anbiyā’'' ()
*''Mawqif al-Sharī‘ah al-Gharrā’ min Nikāḥ al-Mut‘ah'' ()
*''Risālah fī Ḥukm al-Taṣwīr'' ()
*''Al-Mahdī wa-Ashrāṭ al-Sā‘ah'' ()
*''Al-Shubuhāt wa-l-Abāṭīl ḥawl Ta‘addud Zawjat al-Rasūl'' ()
*''Muktasar tafsir Ibn Kathir, (in Arabic: مختصر تفسير ابن كثير).''
*''From Treasures Of The Sunnah (In Arabic: من كنوز السنة).''
See also
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Wahbah al-Zuhayli
Wahbah Mustafa al-Zuhayli (1932 – 8 August 2015) born in Dair Atiah, Syria was a Syrian professor and Islamic scholar specializing in Islamic law and legal philosophy. He was also a preacher at Badr Mosque in Dair Atiah. He was the author ...
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Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
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List of Hanafis
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List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
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References
1930 births
2021 deaths
Academics from Aleppo
Muslim missionaries
Maturidis
Quranic exegesis scholars
Syrian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Al-Azhar University alumni
Hadith scholars
Hanafi fiqh scholars
Syrian expatriates in Egypt
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