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'Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad At-Tahaawee', 'Imaam Abu Ja'far at-Tahaawee' or simply 'Tahawi' (843 or 853 ^[1] to 935 (321 AH)^[2]) was a famous Sunni Islamic Scholar who followed the Hanafi madhhab.

Contents

Biography

Works

Legacy

Sunni views

See also

References

External links

Biography

He passed knowledge between those who came before (Salaf) and those who came after (Khalaf). The scholars of his time praised him and mentioned him as being a scholar of Hadith (Muhaddith), one whose report was reliable and an established narrator. He was viewed as a distinguished and highly proficient writer and became known as the most knowledgeable of fiqh amongst the Hanafis in Egypt. This was even though he had a share in the fiqh of all of the madhabs of fiqh and Hadith, and he knew of the various sciences of Islam ^[3].
He began as a student of his maternal uncle, Muzni, a leading disciple of Imam Shafi'i. Later he joined the Hanafi school and used his knowledge in Hadith to defend that school. His monumental scholarly works, such as Sharh ''Ma'ani al-Athar'' and ''Mushkil al-Athar'' (clarifying the meaning of hadiths that seems conflicting), are encyclopedic in scope and have long been regarded as indispensable for training students of Fiqh. He has been famous for a book on the Sunni creed (Aqidah). Although small in size, is a basic text for all times, listing what a Muslim must know and believe and inwardly comprehend. It has been accepted by a majority of Muslims (Salafis, Ash'aris, Maturidis) [2]. It was well explained by Ibn Abu al-Iz.

Works

He left behind many other works, close to forty different books ^[4], amongst which are:

★ ''Ma'ani al-Athar''

★ ''Aqida al-Tahaweyah'' — it contains the Aqidah of the Salaf in point form, and is very famous.

★ ''Sunan Ash-Shaafi'ee''

★ ''Mushkil Al-Athaar''

★ ''Ahkaam-ul-Qur'aan''

★ ''Al-Mukhtaar''

★ ''Sharh Al-Jaam'i-ul-Kabeer''

★ ''Sharh Al-Jaam'i-us-Sagheer''

★ ''Ash-Shuroot''

★ ''Nawaadir al-Fiqhiyyah ''

★ others

Legacy

Sunni views

★ In his introduction to Sharh Aqida al-Tahaweyah (pages 17-19) with checking from Al-Albani and Aqida al-Tahaweyah, the author Zuhayr Shaweesh provides a glowing tribute to 'Tahaawee':

★ Al-Dhahabi said in his Major History of Islam:

★ Ibn Kathir said in Al Bidayah wa al-Nihayah:

See also

★ Islamic scholars

References

1. http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/Vol35/Bp019.htm
2. http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=538124
3. [1]
4. http://almuttaqoon.com/ar/t292.htm


★ Manhaj of Tahawi and Bayhaqi (Arabic)

★ Sheikh Hamza Yusuf latest translation of the Creed of Imam al-Tahawi 'May 2007'

External links

★ http://almuttaqoon.com/ar/t292.htm