Imam suyuti pdf

Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, also known as Ibn al-Suyuti, was a mujtahid imam and reformer of the tenth Islamic century. Al-Suyuti was a prominent Hadith Master, jurist, Sufi, philologist, and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic science. Al-Suyuti was raised as an orphan in Cairo. He memorized the Qur'an at the age of eight, followed by several complete works of Sacred Law, fundamentals of jurisprudence, and Arabic grammar.

He then devoted his life to studying the Sacred Sciences under approximately sheikhs. Among them were the foremost Shafii and Hanafi sheikhs at the time, such as. Taqi al-Din al-Shamani, with whom he studied Hadith and the sciences of Arabic. Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli, a specialist in the principles of the law, together with whom he compiled the most widespread, condensed commentary on the Qur'an of our time: Tafsir al-Jalalayn.

He then took up the same position at Baybarsiyya , but was dismissed due to complaints from other sheikhs whom he had replaced. After this, he retired into scholarly seclusion, and did not return to the field of teaching. Ibn Iyas , in Tarikh Misr, reveals that when al-Suyuti reached forty years of age, he abandoned the company of men for the solitude of the garden of al-Miqyas, by the side of the river Nile, where he avoided his former colleagues as though he had never known them.

It was there that he authored the majority of his nearly books and treatises. He once said to the Sultan's envoy:. Al-Suyuti was blessed with great success in his years of solitude, and made significant contributions in almost every field of Islamic knowledge.

Is al-suyuti authentic

His Qur'anic exegesis Tafsir al-Jalalayn 'Commentary of the Two Jalals' in which he finished the second half of an uncompleted manuscript by Jalal al-Din Mahalli in just forty days. Some of al-Suyuti's are brief fatwas which do not exceed four pages, such as his notes on the hadith 'Whoever says: "I am knowledgeable" he is ignorant,' entitled Adhab al-Manahil fi Hadith Man Qala Ana Alim.

Al-Haytami states in al-Fatawa al-Hadithiyya that this is simply a saying of the tabi'i Yahya ibn Kathir.