Al-Baghawi
Sign in to save'''Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī (Persian/Arabic:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), also known as al-Baghawī' () was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar based in Khorasan. He was a prominent Quran exegete (mufassir), traditionist (muhaddith''), and Shafi'i jurist (faqih). He best known for his two major works, Maʻālim at-Tanzīl and Masabih as-Sunnah.
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- Born
- 1044-01-01
- Died
- 1117 or 1122
- Works
- 0
Top works
- Selections from Muḥammadan traditions
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Key facts
- Religious biography.religion
- Islam
- Religious biography.occupation
- Scholar, Mufassir, Traditionist, Jurist
- Religious biography.era
- Islamic golden age
- Religious biography.honorific_prefix
- Imam
- Religious biography.name
- Al-Baghawī
- Religious biography.native_name
- البغوي
- Religious biography.native_name_lang
- ar
- Religious biography.title
- Shaykh al-IslamMuḥyī as-SunnahRukn al-DinAl-Ḥāfiẓ
- Religious biography.birth_date
- January 1042 or 1045
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Baghshur
- Religious biography.death_date
- 1123
- Religious biography.death_place
- Marw al-Rudh
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1044
- Died
- 1 January 1122
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Marw al-Rudh
- Occupation
- legal scholar
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Field of work
- tafsir
- Image
- Al Baghawi.png
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'''Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī (Persian/Arabic:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), also known as al-Baghawī' () was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar based in Khorasan. He was a prominent Quran exegete (mufassir), traditionist (muhaddith''), and Shafi'i jurist (faqih). He best known for his two major works, Maʻālim at-Tanzīl and Masabih as-Sunnah.
Al-Baghawi was known by several titles and was referred to as the "Supporter of the Religion" (Dhahīr al-Dīn) by Ibn Khallikān, who describes him as an ocean in the religious sciences. Al-Baghawī was dubbed the "Reviver of the Sunna" (Muḥyī as-Sunna) because he supposedly dreamed of the Islamic prophet telling him, “You revived my Sunna through your commentary on my ḥadīths” and this was due to compiling his work Sharḥ al-Sunna. He is also known as the "Pillar of the Religion" (Rukn al-Dīn).