القاضي عياض

القاضي عياض

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Qadi 'Iyad the Maliki hadith-master, judge of Ceuta then Granada, author of the unmatched al-Shifa'; so fiercely attached to the Sunna that he ordered al-Ghazali's books burned over something he suspected in them — 'they wronged 'Iyad while he forbore them: they put an 'ayn for the ra' in his name to conceal him, yet he is well known' ¹.