Wikipedia's first sentence called it “shafi'i scholar from egypt”. Today it says “egyptian sunni scholar who specialized in the shafi'i jurisprudence”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “15th-century Islamic scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani”. It now reads “16th-century Islamic scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani”.
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15th-century Islamic scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani al-Khatib also known as al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy ( الخطيب الشربيني , was an Egyptian Sunni scholar who specialized in the Shafi'i jurisprudence , legal theory , Qu'ran exegesis , and Arabic language. He had a reputation for wisdom and piety. He completed his studies at Al-Azhar under the tutelage of Zakariyya al-Ansari , Shihab al-Din al-Ramli and others, who gave him permission to offer official legal advice and teaching. His eight volume Mughni al-Muhtaj , a commentary on Al-Nawawi Minhaj al-Talibin , his other well-known three volume commentary, Al-Iqna' fi Halla Alfadh Abi Shuja , which is regarded as one of the best commentaries of one of the most well-known treatises in Shafi'i Fiqh called Matn Abi Shuja and his four volume Quranic exegesis entitled Al-Siraj al-Munir fi al-i'ana ala ma 'rifa ba'd kalam Rabbina al-Hakim al-Khabir . He died in Cairo in the year of 977/1570. Sālim ibn ʿAbdullah ibn Saʿd ibn Samīr al-Haḍramī al-Shāfiʿī (8 September 2014). Safinah Safinat al-Naja' - The Ship of Salvation: A classic manual of Islāmic Doctrine and Jurisprudence In English with Arabic text, commentary and appendices . Translated by Ustaz Abdullah Muhammad al-Marbuqi.
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al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy ( الخطيب الشربيني , d. 1570) was a Shafi'i scholar from Egypt , who wrote many works on exegesis, fiqh, the Arabic language, and other Islamic disciplines. He was initially living in the Dakahlia Governorate , his birthplace, before migrating to Cairo in which he lived for the rest of his life.
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15th-century Islamic scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani al-Khatib also known as al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy ( الخطيب الشربيني , was an Egyptian Sunni scholar who specialized in the Shafi'i jurisprudence , legal theory , Qu'ran exegesis , and Arabic language.He had a reputation for wisdom and piety.He completed his studies at Al-Azhar under the tutelage of Zakariyya al-Ansari , Shihab al-Din al-Ramli and others, who gave him permission to offer official legal advice and teaching.His eight volume Mughni al-Muhtaj , a commentary on Al-Nawawi Minhaj al-Talibin , his other well-known three volume commentary, Al-Iqna' fi Halla Alfadh Abi Shuja , which is regarded as one of the best commentaries of one of the most well-known treatises in Shafi'i Fiqh called Matn Abi Shuja and his four volume Quranic exegesis entitled Al-Siraj al-Munir fi al-i'ana ala ma 'rifa ba'd kalam Rabbina al-Hakim al-Khabir .He died in Cairo in the year of 977/1570.Sālim ibn ʿAbdullah ibn Saʿd ibn Samīr al-Haḍramī al-Shāfiʿī (8 September 2014).Safinah Safinat al-Naja' - The Ship of Salvation: A classic manual of Islāmic Doctrine and Jurisprudence In English with Arabic text, commentary and appendices .Translated by Ustaz Abdullah Muhammad al-Marbuqi.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “shafi'i scholar from egypt”. Today it says “egyptian sunni scholar who specialized in the shafi'i jurisprudence”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “15th-century Islamic scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani”. It now reads “16th-century Islamic scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani”. Read the current article and compare.
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shafi'i scholar from egypt
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egyptian sunni scholar who specialized in the shafi'i jurisprudence
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