Mundhirī

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī Zakī al-Dīn al-Mundhirī (), commonly known as Al-Mundhirī (; 656–581 AH/ 1185–1258 CE) was a Sunni Egyptian scholar of Syrian origin. He was an influential jurist, hadith specialist, historian, muhaqqiq (researcher), and well-versed in the Arabic language. He is regarded as the greatest hadith scholar of his time.

==Biography== Al-Mundhirī's family origin was from Levant (Shām) but he was born in Fustat, Egypt in the year of the 1st Sha'ban 581 corresponding to 28 October 1185. He was proficient in Islamic etiquette and law and had memorised the Qur'an. He started studying the sciences of hadith and excelled in it. He studied under a number of scholars including Umar bin Tabarzad, Ghiyáth al-Muqri’, Aba ‘Umar bin Qudámah, Muwaffaq ad-Din ibn Qudámah and Sitt al-Katbah bint 'АН bin as-Sarrah. His most important teacher was Ibn al-Mufaddhal, a major hadith scholar in his time. He stayed with him for a while and completed his education with him. After he completed his studies, he began travelling to peruse further knowledge and visited many cities such as Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Harran, Edessa, Alexandria and others, prior to beginning to teach in the Al-Zafiri Mosque in Cairo. After that, he served as Shafi'i professor of hadith sciences at Dar al-Hadith al-Kamiliyya mosque for about 20 years. He then focused on authoring and narrating ahadith. He died on the 4 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 656/3 November 1258.