Al-Imām Taqiy-ud-dīn al-Hisnī Ash-Shāfi’ī Al-Asha’rī

 

Al-Imām Taqiy-ud-dīn al-Hisnī Ash-Shāfi’ī Al-Asha’rī (also transliterated as Al-Imaam Taqiy-ud-deen Al-Hisnee Ash-Shafi’iee Al-Asha’ree) Born 752 (A.H.)/1351 (C.E.) and died in the year 829 (A.H.)/1426 (C.E.). In Volume nine of the book Shadharāt Adh-Dhahab the entry of Al-Imām Taqiy-ud-dīn al-Hisnī reads as follows:

“Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Abdul-Mu’min ibn Harīz ibn Sa’īd ibn Dāwūd ibn Qāsim ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alawī ibn Nāshī ibn Jawhar ibn ‘Alī ibn Abīl Qāsim ibn Sālim ibn Abdullah ibn ‘Umar ibn Mūsā ibn Yahyā ibn ‘Alī Al-Asghar ibn Muhammad At-Taqī ibn Hasan (al-‘askarī) ibn ‘Alī [Al-Hādī] ibn Muhammad ibn Al-Jawwād ibn ‘Alī Ar-Ridhā ibn Mūsā Al-Kāthim ibn Jā’far As-Sādiq ibn Muhammad Al-Bāqir ibn ‘Alī Zaynul-‘Ābid-dīn ibn Al-Husayn Ash-Shahīd ibn Al-Amīr Al-Mu’minīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib (Radhiya Allāhu ‘Anhu).”

He is from the family of our Nabi Muhammad (Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa Sallam) through the loins of Al-Amīr Al-Mu’minīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib.

Al-Hisnī is an ascription to the fort within the city of Hawrān, he then became Ad-Dimashqī (from Damscus). Al-Faqīh Ash-Shāfi’ī (See Al-Inbā’ Al-Ghumar of Ibn Hajr Al-‘Asqalānī 8/110). He studied fiqh beneath Ash-Sharīshī, Az-Zuhrī, Ibn al-Jābī, As-Sarkhadī, Al-Ghazzī, and Ibn Ghannūm. He then took from As-Sadr Al-Yāsūfī and then departed from his way. He fell into fitnah within the city of Damscus while teaching. He started commanding the good and forbidding the evil. Al-Qādhī Taqiy-ud-dīn Al-Asadī said,

“He had a light spirit, cheerful, he would (tell) jokes…he married several women…then he separated from them and lead an ascetic life. He eventually had his hearing eyesight afflicted. He wrote many books in fiqh (jurisprudence) and Zuhd (asceticism).”

 Imām As-Sakhāwī said that he wrote the following books: “He wrote explanations to At-Tanbīh (At-Tanbīh of Abī –Is-hāq Ash-Shirāzī, a shāfi’ī book) in five volumes, Al-Minhāj (of Imām An-Nawawī), and Imām An-Nawawi’s Sharh of Sahīh Muslim in three volumes, Al-Muhimmāt of Al-Asnawī in two volumes, and he researched the narrations found within Imām Al-Ghazzālī’s Al-Ihyā in a volume (this book was mentioned by Ibn Al-Qādhī Shuhbah in his Tabaqāt), a commentary on the fourty hadīth of Imām An-Nawawī, as well as many other books. He also wrote a tafsīr of the Qur’ān in six volumes titled, “Tafsīr Al-Qur’ān ilal Mahālik” and a commentary on the names of Allāh as well as other works in fiqh including Kifāyatul-Akhyār fī Hill Ghāyatul Ikhtisār. He died in the fourth night of Jumādī II in the year 829 A.H (1426 C.E.)

May Allah (the exalted) shed his immense mercy upon Shaykh Abu Bakr. Amin!

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