Al-Bayhaqi
Sign in to saveAbū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was a Sunni scholar widely known for being the foremost leading hadith master in his age, leading authority in the Shafi'i school, leading authority on the foundation of doctrine, meticulous, a devoted ascetic and one of the notable defenders of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time."
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Key facts
- Religious biography.religion
- Islam
- Religious biography.era
- Islamic golden age
- Religious biography.name
- Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Bayhaqi
- Religious biography.title
- Shaykh al-Islam
- Religious biography.birth_date
- Ramadan 384 AH / October 994
- Religious biography.death_date
- 10 Jumadi al-Awwal, 458 AH/ 9 April 1066 (aged 72)
- Religious biography.denomination
- Sunni
- Religious biography.jurisprudence
- Shafi'i
- Religious biography.creed
- Ash'ari
- Religious biography.main_interests
- Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic theology
- Religious biography.influences
- Al-Shafi'iAbu al-Hasan al-Ash'ariAl-Hakim al-NishapuriIbn FurakAbu Mansur Al-BaghdadiAbu Ishaq al-IsfarayiniAl-HalimiAl-Sulami
- Religious biography.influenced
- Al-JuwayniAbu Ismail al-Harawi
- Religious biography.works
- Sunan al-Kubra''Shu'ab al-ImanAl-Sunan al-WustaAl-Asma' wa al-SifatDalail al-Nubuwwa''
- Religious biography.death_place
- Nishapur, now Khorasan, Iran
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Bayhaq, now Sabzevar, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
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- human
- Given name
- Ahmad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Khorasan
- Place of death
- Nishapur
- Occupation
- scholar
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Ash'ari
- Student of
- Juwaynī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf
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14 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Birth
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- Scholarly life
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- Creed
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Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was a Sunni scholar widely known for being the foremost leading hadith master in his age, leading authority in the Shafi'i school, leading authority on the foundation of doctrine, meticulous, a devoted ascetic and one of the notable defenders of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time."
==Early life== ===Birth=== Al-Bayhaqi was born c. 994 CE/384 AH in the small town of Khosrowjerd near Sabzevar, then known as Bayhaq, in Khorasan.
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