Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam


Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam was a prominent Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi 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.

Life

He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and studied in Cairo as well as Aleppo. His ancestry was from the Turkish province of Sivas, but he was born in Alexandria and grew up and passed away in Cairo. He was appointed head shaykh of the Khanaqah Shaykhuniyyah in Cairo in 1443.

Teachers

He studied under many notable scholars, among them are:
Among his celebrated students are:
Among his well-known writings are: