ابن حجر العسقلاني

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (RH)

Also known as: Ibn Hajar, al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar

773–852 AH · 1372–1449 CE

Hadith Shafi'i Fiqh

'Amir al-Mu'minin in hadith', author of Fath al-Bari, the great commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.

Ibn Hajar was orphaned young in Cairo and became the greatest hadith scholar of his age. He travelled to Syria, the Hijaz and Yemen to study, and he served many times as chief Shafi'i judge of Egypt.

He spent about twenty-five years writing Fath al-Bari, a commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari that is considered unmatched. His Bulugh al-Maram is a standard collection of legal hadith studied by beginners, al-Isabah is the fullest dictionary of the Companions, and Tahdhib al-Tahdhib and Lisan al-Mizan evaluate narrators. He should not be confused with the jurist Ibn Hajar al-Haytami.

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