Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
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: Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
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| Birth | : 392 AH / 1002CE |
| Death | : 463 AH / 1071 CE |
| School/tradition | : Shafi'i |
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Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002-1071 CE) (392 AH-463 AH [1]) (Arabic: الخطيب البغدادي) was a Sunni Muslim scholar and historian.
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[edit] Name
Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn `Ali ibn Thabit ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Shafi`i A.K.A al-Khatib al-Baghdadi or the lecturer from Baghdad
[edit] Sunni view
Al-Dhahabi praised him as:
- "the most peerless imam, erudite scholar and mufti, meticulous hadith master, scholar of his time in hadith, prolific author, and seal of the hadith masters
- (What is meant by seal here is that his excellence was unequalled after him in his field. It is a hyperbolic praise.)
- Al-Qinnawji said:
- "He was a jurist whose preference went to hadith and history." (Abjad al-`Ulum (3:96))
However, he deemed weak narrations where Muhammad was quoted as predicting Abu Hanifa, and for this, Allama Yusuf, a Hanbali scholar, quoted in his work Tanwir as-sahifa from Hafiz 'Allama Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Barr (b. 978 and d. 1071 in Shatiba), Qadi of Lisbon, Portugal:
- Do not slander Abu Hanifa and do not believe those who slander him! I swear by Allahu ta'ala that I know not a person superior to him, having more wara', or being more learned than he. "Do not believe what al-Khatib al-Baghdadi said! He was antipathetic towards the 'ulama'. He slandered Abu Hanifa, Imam Ahmad and their disciples. The 'ulama' of Islam refuted al-Khatib and censured him. [2]
[edit] Works
- History of Baghdad (Arabic: Tarikh Baghdad)
