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Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, Radi al-Din al-Sarakhsi

محمد بن محمد بن محمد، رضي الدين السرخسي

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, Radi al-Din and Burhan al-Islam al-Sarakhsi, a Hanafi jurist and usuli, a great imam who combined the rational and transmitted sciences. He came to Aleppo and taught at the Nuriyya and Halawiyya after Mahmud al-Ghaznawi, but a group turned against him and charged him with negligence, so he left teaching and went to Damascus, where he taught at the Hanutiyya and died. His works include the four 'Muhit' volumes. He died in 771 AH. 1

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Summary

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, Radi al-Din al-Sarakhsi, a Hanafi jurist and usuli who combined rational and transmitted sciences. 1

Works

He taught in Aleppo, withdrew from teaching under pressure and went to Damascus; his 'Muhit' works are in several volumes; he died in 771 AH. 1

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.2062
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