Ibn Abidin

Deceased Person

1783 – 1836

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Who was Ibn Abidin?

Muhammad Amin Ibn Abidin also known as Imam Ibn Abidin ash-shami was a prominent Islamic scholar and Jurist who lived in the city of Damascus in Syria during the Ottoman era. He was the authority of the fiqh of the Hanafi madhhab. He was a state employee with the title of Amin al-fatwa. This meant that he was the mufti that people would go to when they had legal questions in Damascus. He composed over 50 works consisting of a major fatwa collection, many treatises, poems, and several commentaries on the works of others.

His most famous work was the Radd al-Muhtar ala Ad-Durr al-Mukhtar. This is still considered the authoritative text of Hanafi fiqh today.

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Born
1783
Died
1836

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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