Al-Zarkashi

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Badr ad-Dīn az-Zarkashī
Title	Imam
Personal
Born	745 AH/ 1344 Cairo, Egypt
Died	794 AH
Nationality	Egyptian
Era	Memluk
Region	Egypt
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Main interest(s)	Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence.
Occupation	Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist.
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muhammad
Patronymic (Nasab)	Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abū 'Abdullāh
Toponymic (Nisba)	az-Zarkashī

Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344-1392/ 745-794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar who lived in Mamluk Cairo and specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history and Shafi'i jurisprudence (fiqh). Of Turkish origins, he was born in Cairo, Egypt and travelled throughout the Muslim world in search of knowledge, primarily in Aleppo and Damascus, Syria. He left behind no less than thirty compendiums, but many of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known.

Teachers

He studied hadīth in Damascus with Imād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), fiqh and usūl in Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), and Quran and fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Asnawi (d. 1370).

His disciples

Two of his more well-known students include Shamsuddīn al-Barmadi (d. 830 AH) and Najmuddin bin Haji ad-Dimasyqi (d. 831 AH)

His works

1. Al Bahru Al-Muhith, in the science of usul fiqh
2. Salasil adz-Dzhahab, in the science of usul fiqh
3. Al-Burhān fī `ulūm al-Qur'an (البرهان في علوم القرآن)
4. I`lanu as of our bi-Sajid al-Masajid
5. Al-Ijāba li-Īrād mā Istadrakathu ‘Ā’isha ‘alā al-Sahaba (Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islami, 1970)
6. At-Tadzkirah fi al-ahadith al-Musytaharah
7. Sheet Ma`na Kalimati fi at-Tawhid Laa ilaha illallah
8. Al-manthūr fī al-qawa'id fi furu`i ash-Shafi`iyyah
9. Takhrij ahadith ash-Sharh al-Kabir li ar-Rafi`i
10. Al-Ghurar as-Safir fima Yahtaju ilaihi al-Musafir