Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

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title: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
text: Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari. He is known by the honorific epithets Hafiz al-Asr "Hafiz of the Time", Shaykh al-Islam "Shaykh of Islam", and Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith "Le
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description: Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)
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date created: 2005-07-17T22:40:49Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T20:06:15Z
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