• Source: Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi

Abd al" target="_blank">al-Ghani ibn Abd al" target="_blank">al-Wahid al" target="_blank">al-Maqdisi (Arabic: عبد الغني بن عبد الوحيد المقدسي, romanized: ʿAbd al" target="_blank">al-Ghāni ibn ʿAbd al" target="_blank">al-Waḥīd al" target="_blank">al-Maqdisī; 1146 – 1203) was a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent hadith master. He was born in 1146 CE (541 AH) in the village of Jummail in Palestine. He studied with scholars in Damascus; many of whom were from his own extended family. He studied with the Imam of Tasawwuf, Shaykh Abdul Qadir al" target="_blank">al-Jilani. He was the first person to establish a school on Mount Qasioun near Damascus. He died in 1203 CE (600 AH).
He was a relative of Diya al" target="_blank">al-Din al" target="_blank">al-Maqdisi, as his mother and Diya al" target="_blank">al-Din al" target="_blank">al-Maqdisi's grandmother were sisters. He had three sons named Muhammad, Abdullah and Abdur-Rahman, all of whom became prominent scholars. The scholar, Ibn Qudamah al" target="_blank">al-Maqdisi was the maternal cousin of Abdul-Ghani, and Ibn Qudāmah described his association with Abdul-Ghani as:
"My friend in childhood and in seeking knowledge, and never did we race to goodness except that he would precede me to it, with the exception of [a] small [number of occasions]"
He was the author of al" target="_blank">Al-Kamal fi Asma' al" target="_blank">al-Rijal, a collection of biographies of hadith narrators within the Islamic discipline of biographical evaluation.




Works


His works include:

Kitāb ut-Tawḥīd
Akhbār Ad-Dajjāl
al" target="_blank">Al-`Itiqād - A short text that outlines the foundational creed.
al" target="_blank">Al-Jāmi' as-Saghīr Li Ahkām al" target="_blank">al-Bashīr an-Nadhīr
I`tiqād ul-Imām Ash-Shafi`ī -The author shows the complete agreement between all the Imams on foundational theology and particularly the Imam’s dislike for speculative theology.
al" target="_blank">Al-Ahkām
al" target="_blank">Al-Arba'īn Min Kalām Rabbil-Aalamīn
Amr bi-l-Maʿrūf wa-n-Nahy ʿani-l-Munkar
At-Targhīb fid-Du'ā al" target="_blank">al-Hathth Alayhi
At-Tawakkul was Su'āl Allāh Azza wa Jall
al" target="_blank">Al-Aathār al" target="_blank">al-Mardiyyah Fī Fadā'il Khayr il-Bariyyah
al" target="_blank">Al-Iqtiṣād fil-I'tiqād-This is a book on advanced theology that itemises creed into a series of themes.
al" target="_blank">Al-Miṣbaḥ fī `Uyun il-Aḥādith aṣ-Ṣiḥaḥ
Mukhtaṣar Sīrah an-Nabī wa Sīrah Aṣḥabihi al" target="_blank">al-‘Asharah (Short Biographies of the Prophet and His Ten Companions who were given the Tidings of Paradise)
Ṭuḥfat ut-Ṭālibīn fīl Jīhad wal-Mujāhidīn
Umdat ul-Aḥkām min Kalām Khayr il-Kalām
Umdat ul-Aḥkām al" target="_blank">al-kubrā - Extended version of Umdat ul-Aḥkām min Kalām Khayr il-Kalām.
Faḍā'il ul-Hajj
Faḍā'il us-Ṣadaqah
Faḍā'il Ashar Dhil-Hijjah
Faḍā'il Umar bin al" target="_blank">al-Khattāb
Faḍā'il Makkah
al" target="_blank">Al-Kamāl Fī Ma'rifat ir-Rijāl
Miḥnah Imām Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal




See also


Maqdisi (nesbat)
History of Hadith




References






Bibliography


Drory, Joseph (1988). "Hanbalis of the Nablus Region in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". Asian and African Studies. 22: 93–112.
Talmon-Heller, D. (2009). "'Ilm, Baraka, Shafa'a – the Resources of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk 'Ulama". Mamluk Studies Review. 13/2: 1–23.




External links


Biodata at MuslimScholars.info

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