Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam
Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist
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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 [ancestral] shares'), mathematics, and music.[7][8][9]
Kamal al-Din ibn al-Humam كمال الدين بن الهمام | |
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| Title | Kamal al-Din[1][2] — Shaykh al-Islam[3] |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 790 A.H. = 1388 A.D. |
| Died | 861 A.H. = 1457 A.D. |
| 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 | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni Sufi |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi[4] Ash'ari |
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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
Teachers
He studied under many notable scholars, among them are:[13]
- 'Izz al-Din ibn Jama'a (d. 819/1416).
- Wali al-Din al-'Iraqi (d. 826/1423).
- Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d. 852/1449).
- Badr al-Din al-'Ayni (d. 855/1451).
Students
Among his celebrated students are:[14][15]
- Sharaf al-Din Yahya al-Munawi (d. 871/1467) (whose great-grandson 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi would write a commentary on al-Suyuti's Al-Jami' al-Saghir titled Fayd al-Qadir).
- Ibn Amir al-Hajj (d. 879/1474).
- Ibn Qutlubugha (d. 879/1474).
- Badr al-Din Abu al-Yusr Muhammad ibn al-Ghars (d. 894/1488).
- Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi (d. 902/1497).
- Kamal al-Din ibn Abi Sharif (d. 905-906/1499-1500).
- Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911/1505).
- Zakariyya al-Ansari (d. 926/1520).
Books
Among his well-known writings are:
- Fath al-Qadir lil-'Ajiz al-Faqir (Arabic: فتح القدير للعاجز الفقير), a commentary on al-Hidayah, a magnum opus in the Hanafi fiqh by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani.[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]
- Al-Taḥrīr fi Usul al-Fiqh (Arabic: التحرير في أصول الفقه), a work on usul al-fiqh synthesizing between the methodological approaches of the Hanafi and Shafi'i legal theorists.
- Zad al-Faqir (Arabic: زاد الفقير), a treatise on the rulings of prayer and purification.
