Wajih al-Din al-Tanukhi (Asad ibn al-Munajja)

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Wajih al-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Asad ibn al-Munajja, also called Muhammad ibn al-Munajja Barakat ibn al-Mu'ammal al-Tanukhi al-Ma'arri then al-Dimashqi: a Hanbali jurist who held the judgeship of Harran. He studied at Damascus with Sharaf al-Islam Abd al-Wahhab ibn al-Hanbali, and at Baghdad with Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani; he heard hadith there from al-Armawi, Anushtakin al-Radwani and Abu Ja'far al-Abbasi, and at Damascus from Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Muqatil and others. Al-Muwaffaq ibn Qudama, Ibn Khalil, al-Diya, al-Mundhiri and al-Shihab al-Qawusi, among others, transmitted from him. The al-Musmariyya madrasa was built for him and endowed for him and his descendants. His works include al-Khulasa fi al-madhhab, al-Umda in fiqh, and al-Nihaya fi sharh al-Hidaya in about ten volumes. The heading gives his death as 606 AH. ¹²