Radi al-Din al-Astarabadhi

Radi al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Astarabadhi is the author of a celebrated commentary on the Kafiya, the well-known grammatical work of Ibn al-Hajib. Al-Suyuti praises the commentary as unique. It was completed in 683 AH (1284-5). The same commentary was published in Cairo in 1939. ¹

Al-Suyuti admits to knowing nothing of Radi al-Din's life beyond the date of the commentary and of his death, which is reported as 684 AH or 686 AH (1285-1288). The entry adds that he also wrote a lesser-known commentary on Ibn al-Hajib's Shafiya. The qadi Nur Allah Shushtari reads a reference in the introductory prayer as meaning Najaf, but the term haram in the Arabic edition could refer to Mecca, where Suyuti obtained his information on the date of death. The entry concludes that there is no doubt that Radi al-Din was a Shi'i. ¹