Musa al-Hajjawi

Sharaf al-Din Abu al-Naja Musa ibn Ahmad al-Hajjawi al-Maqdisi, then al-Salihi, the Hanbali. He was the imam and scholar, mufti of the Hanbalis in Damascus and Shaykh al-Islam there. He was an outstanding imam, a jurist of the foundations of law, a hadith scholar and a pious man. ¹.

Among his writings is the book al-Iqna', in which he extracted the sound positions from the school of Imam Ahmad. No one had written a work like it in establishing transmitted rulings and in the number of its questions. Among his other works are a commentary on al-Mufradat, a commentary on Ibn Muflih's versified etiquette, Zad al-Mustaqni', an abridgement of al-Muqni', and a gloss on al-Furu', among others. ¹.

He died on Thursday, the twenty-second of Rabi' al-Awwal 960 AH, and was buried at the lower part of al-Rawda, facing the grave of al-Muhaqqiq on its western side, with the road separating them. ¹.