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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.

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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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