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Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

1372–1449 · 15th century

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani was an Egyptian scholar of hadith and Shafi'i jurist of Mamluk Cairo, where he served several terms as chief judge. His Fath al-Bari, a commentary on the hadith collection of al-Bukhari, became the standard work of its kind, and he also wrote biographical dictionaries and histories. He is regarded as one of the greatest hadith scholars of Islam.

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
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