Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam

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Kamal al-Din ibn al-Humam
كمال الدين بن الهمام
TitleKamal al-Din[1][2] — Shaykh al-Islam[3]
Personal life
Born790 A.H. = 1388 A.D.
Alexandria
Died861 A.H. = 1457 A.D.
Cairo
Main interest(s)Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Tawhid, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh, Usul al-Din, Hadith studies, Tafsir, Logic, Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Rhetoric, Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, Sufism, Mathematics, Music
Notable work(s)Al-Musayarah, Fath al-Qadeer
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni Sufi
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi[4]
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (Arabic: الكمال بن الهمام) was a prominent Egyptian[5] Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi.[6] Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance (in Arabic, known as 'ilm al-fara'id, or 'the science of shares'), mathematics, and music.[7][8][9]

He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.[10]

Name

He is Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahid ibn 'Abd al-Hamid ibn Mas'ud al-Siwasi, then al-Iskandari, known and often referred to as Ibn al-Humam.

Life

He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and studied in Cairo as well as Aleppo.He was born in Alexandria and grew up and died in Cairo.[11] He was appointed head shaykh of the Khanaqah Shaykhuniyyah in Cairo in 1443.[12][9]

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He studied under many notable scholars, among them are:[13]

Students

Among his celebrated students are:[14][15]

Books

Among his well-known writings are:

  • Fath al-Qadeer lil-'Ajiz al-Faqeer (Arabic: فتح القدير للعاجز الفقير).[6]
  • Al-Musayara fi al-'Aqaid al-Munjiya fi al-Akhira (Arabic: المسايرة في العقائد المنجية في الآخرة), a Maturidi theological treatise that follows the sequence of Imam al-Ghazali's tract on dogmatic theology called al-Risala al-Qudsiyya (The Jerusalem Epistle); hence, the name al-Musāyarah (the Pursuit).[16]
  • Zad al-Faqeer (Arabic: زاد الفقير), a treatise on the rulings of prayer and purification.

See also

References

  1. ^ David Dean Commins (1990). Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780195362947.
  2. ^ Sherman A. Jackson (2009). Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering. Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780195382068.
  3. ^ "The Biography of Imam al-Kamal ibn al-Humam". Dar al-Ifta' al-Misriyya.
  4. ^ Cenap Çakmak (2017). Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia [4 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 1015. ISBN 9781610692175.
  5. ^ Baber Johansen (1999). Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. Brill Publishers. p. 148. ISBN 9789004106031.
  6. ^ a b "Fath al Qadir: 10 Volumes, Arabic". Madani Propagation.
  7. ^ "The Life and Works of al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām". Ahnaf Blog.
  8. ^ "Al-'Alam by al-Zirikli". shamela.ws.
  9. ^ a b John L. Esposito (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780199757268.
  10. ^ Abdul Azim Islahi (2014). History of Islamic Economic Thought: Contributions of Muslim Scholars to Economic Thought and Analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 9781784711382.
  11. ^ "The Life and Works of al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām". Ahnaf Blog.
  12. ^ "The Biography of Ibn al-Humam". The Oxford Dictionary of Islam - Oxford Islamic Studies Online.[dead link‍]
  13. ^ "The Biography of Imam al-Kamal ibn al-Humam". Dar al-Ifta' al-Misriyya.
  14. ^ "The Life and Works of al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām". Ahnaf Blog.
  15. ^ "The Biography of Imam al-Kamal ibn al-Humam". Dar al-Ifta' al-Misriyya.
  16. ^ "The Life and Works of al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām". Ahnaf Blog.