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Biography
Shihab al-Din Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr al-Qastallani al-Qutaybi al-Shafi'i, also known as Al-Qastallani was a Sunni Islamic scholar who specialized in hadith and theology. He owed his literary fame mainly to his exhaustive commentary on the Sahih al-Bukhari entitled Irshad al-Sari fi Sharh al-Bukhari.
Life
He was married to 'Aishah al-Ba'uniyyah.
He was a contemporary of Suyuti, and between the two there were several scholarly challenges, Arabic: 'Khusumat'. The subject of the arguments were focused on al-Qastallani's Shaykh al-Sakhawi, but eventually al-Qastallani went to Suyuti to apologize.
Views
Qastallani settled on the Shafi'i school later in life, though he was initially a follower of the Maliki school in jurisprudence. In regard to Islamic theology, Qastallani was a proponent of the Ash'ari school for which he is considered one of the main figureheads.
Works
- Al-Muwahib al-Ladunniyyah bi al-Minah al-Muhammadiyya
- Irshad al-Sari, 10 vol, one of the best commentaries on Sahih Bukhari
- Masalik al-Hunafa ila Mashari' al-Salat 'ala al-Nabiy al-Mustafa
- Minhaj al-Ibtihaj Sharh Muslim b. al-Hajjaj, a commentary on Sahih Muslim
- al-Jannat al-Dani fi Hall Hirz al-Amani, a commentary on the Shatibiyyah
- al-Fath al-Mawahibi, a biography of the author of Shatibiyyah
- A commentary on the Burda
- Makamat al-'Arifin
- Masalik al-Hunafa ila Mashari al-Salat 'ala 'l-Nabi al-mustafa