Ahmad Muhammad Shakir

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Religion Islam Region Cairo Died June 14, 1958		Role Writer Name Ahmad Shakir Main interests Hadith

Born January 29, 1892 ( 1892-01-29 )

Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir (Arabic: أحمد محمد شاكر‎‎ ) (January 29, 1892, Cairo – June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian scholar of hadith. He is the son of Mahmud Shakir, an ulama of Al-Azhar University and elder brother of Mahmud Muhammad Shakir, a writer and journalist.

Positions held

He graduated from and worked at Al-Azhar University and retired in 1951. Among the positions that he held was that of vice-chairman of the Supreme Shariah Court in Cairo.

Works

al-Ba'ith al-Hathith: his explanation of Ibn Kathir's Ikhtisaar 'Uloom al-Hadith, an abridgement of the Muqaddimah in hadith terminology

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal: his footnotes to approximately the first third of Ahmad ibn Hanbal's large collection of hadith

Jaami' al-Bayyaan, commonly referred to as Tafsir al-Tabari: footnotes to Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari's explanation of the Quran; incomplete

Sunan al-Tirmidhi: his footnotes to about the first third of this hadith collection

al-Muhalla: footnotes to the fiqh book of ibn Hazm

al-'Aqidah al-Tahaawiyyah: editing and footnotes to the famous book of Sunni creed by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi

'Umdah al-Tafsir: abridgement of Tafsir ibn Kathir; incomplete

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