Al-Shafi‘i
Arab Muslim theologian, writer and scholar (767-820) · Academics · Died at 52
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Portraits of the Imāms Ḥasan (d. 670), Ḥusayn (d. 680), Shāfi`ī (d. 820) and Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 767), with `Abbāsid revolutionary Abū Muslim (d. 755)
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, He who seeks pearls immerses himself in the sea.
O Allah! You blessed me with Islam and I didn’t ask You for it, O Allah bless me with Jannah and I am asking for it.
My sin had burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord! Your Forgiveness came out greater.
About this person
Born in Gaza in 767 CE to the Quraysh tribe's Banu Muttalib clan, al-Shafi'i moved to Mecca at age two and grew up there before living in Medina, Yemen, Baghdad, and Egypt. He served as a judge in Najran and became a scholar whose work cut across jurisprudence, hadith, theology, and asceticism. His book al-Risala gave Islamic legal principles their first coherent structure, fundamentally redirecting how law would be understood and applied. He died in 820, leaving his name to one of Sunni Islam's four major schools of jurisprudence.
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