أبو القاسم الرافعي

al-Rafi'i (RH)

Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i

555–623 AH · 1160–1226 CE

Fiqh Shafi'i

One of the 'two shaykhs' of the later Shafi'i school, with al-Nawawi.

'Abd al-Karim al-Rafi'i taught Quran commentary and hadith in Qazvin and was known for his asceticism. His great work, al-'Aziz fi Sharh al-Wajiz (also called al-Sharh al-Kabir), is a commentary on al-Ghazali's al-Wajiz that carefully sifts the many opinions within the Shafi'i school.

His al-Muharrar, a concise text, was later abridged by al-Nawawi as Minhaj al-Talibin. Later Shafi'i scholars treat the agreed positions of al-Rafi'i and al-Nawawi, 'the two shaykhs', as the authoritative view of the school.

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