Al-Zarkashi
Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī, better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence. He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known. One of his most famous works that has survived is al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.
Teachers
Az-Zarkashī studied hadīth in Damascus with Imād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir, fiqh and usūl in Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I, and Quran and fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi.Disciples
His notable students included Shamsuddīn al-Barmaid and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimashqi.Works
- Al-bahr al-muhīt fī usūl al-fiqh
- Salāsil adh-dhahab fī usūl al-fiqh
- Al-burhān fī ʿulūm al-Qur'ān
- Iʿlam as-sājid bi-ahkām al-masājid
- "The Corrective: ʿĀ’isha’s Rectification of the Companions" Al-Ijāba limā istadrakatahu ‘Ā’isha ‘alā as-Sahāba
- At-tadhkirah fī al-ahādīth al-mushtaharah
- Risāla fī maʿnī kalimat fī at-Tawhid : is considered by many scholars to be among the foremost compendiums of legal principles in the Shāfi'i fiqh. The text includes over 100 principles that are listed alphabetically.
- Takhrīj ahādīth ash-sharh al-kabīr li ar-Rāfiʿī
- ''Al-ghurar as-sāfir fīmā yahtāju ilaihi al-musāfir''