al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Nisaburi al-A'raj

الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري الأعرج

al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn, Nizam al-Din al-Qummi al-Nisaburi, known as al-A'raj: a Qur'an commentator and jurist with interests in philosophy and mathematics. Ibrahim Atwa, in the introduction to his Gharayib al-Qur'an, places him among the scholars of the eighth century AH. His works include Gharayib al-Qur'an wa Raghaib al-Furqan, known as the Tafsir of al-Nisaburi. 1

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Summary

al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn, Nizam al-Din al-Qummi al-Nisaburi, known as al-A'raj: a Qur'an commentator and jurist with interests in philosophy and mathematics. Ibrahim Atwa, in the introduction to his Gharayib al-Qur'an, places him among the scholars of the eighth century AH. His works include Gharayib al-Qur'an wa Raghaib al-Furqan, known as the Tafsir of al-Nisaburi. 1

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7165
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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.