Malik al-Muhaddithin, hadith master of Gujarat · Islam Museum

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Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: South Asia
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Scripture and its sciences

Summary

Malik al-Muhaddithin of Gujarat. The Nur al-safir says of its subject: he had firm footing in the science of hadith and beyond, taught and gave fatwas. He was martyred on Wednesday, 6 Shawwal, at seventy-three, and followed the Mahdawi path. 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

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 414

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