Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam

Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam was a prominent Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi. Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam, logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir, Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance, mathematics, and music.
He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.

Name

He is Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahid ibn 'Abd al-Hamid ibn Mas'ud al-Siwasi, then al-Iskandari, known and often referred to as Ibn al-Humam.

He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and studied in Cairo as well as Aleppo.He was born in Alexandria and grew up and died in Cairo. He was appointed head shaykh of the Khanaqah Shaykhuniyyah in Cairo in 1443.

He studied under many notable scholars, among them are:

Among his celebrated students are:

Among his well-known writings are:Fath al-Qadir lil-'Ajiz al-Faqir, a commentary on al-Hidayah, a magnum opus in the Hanafi fiqh by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani.Al-Musayara fi al-'Aqaid al-Munjiya fi al-Akhira, a Maturidi theological treatise that follows the sequence of Imam al-Ghazali's tract on dogmatic theology called al-Risala al-Qudsiyya ; hence, the name al-Musāyarah.Al-Taḥrīr fi Usul al-Fiqh, a work on usul al-fiqh synthesizing between the methodological approaches of the Hanafi and Shafi'i legal theorists.Zad al-Faqir, a treatise on the rulings of prayer and purification.