حمزة بن أحمد الحسيني

حمزة بن أحمد الحسيني

Hamza ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas al-Husayni of Damascus, a Shafi'i jurist, historian and memoriser who learned the Quran and al-Tanbih by heart and studied law under Ibn Qadi Shuhba; a modest and well-read man. His works include a commentary on al-Nawawi's edition of al-Tanbih, Baqaya al-Khabaya (a supplement to al-Zarkashi's Khabaya al-Zawaya on Shafi'i law) and a book on the merits of Jerusalem. The source gives his dates as 818 to 874 AH. ¹