Ahmad Muhammad Shakir’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Egyptian scholar and Sharia judge
Was Muhaddith
Judge
From Egypt
Type

Law
Religion

Gender male
Birth

29 January 1892, Cairo

Death

14 June 1958, Cairo
(aged 66 years)

Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir (Arabic: أحمد محمد شاكر‎‎ ) (January 29, 1892, Cairo – June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian scholar of hadith. He is the son of Mahmud Shakir, an ulama of Al-Azhar University and elder brother of Mahmud Muhammad Shakir, a writer and journalist.

Positions held

He graduated from and worked at Al-Azhar University and retired in 1951. Among the positions that he held was that of vice-chairman of the Supreme Shariah Court in Cairo.

Works

  • al-Ba’ith al-Hathith: his explanation of Ibn Kathir’s Ikhtisaar ‘Uloom al-Hadith, an abridgement of the Muqaddimah in hadith terminology
  • Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal: his footnotes to approximately the first third of Ahmad ibn Hanbal’s large collection of hadith
  • Jaami’ al-Bayyaan, commonly referred to as Tafsir al-Tabari: footnotes to Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari’s explanation of the Quran; incomplete
  • Sunan al-Tirmidhi: his footnotes to about the first third of this hadith collection
  • al-Muhalla: footnotes to the fiqh book of ibn Hazm
  • al-‘Aqidah al-Tahaawiyyah: editing and footnotes to the famous book of Sunni creed by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi
  • ‘Umdah al-Tafsir: abridgement of Tafsir ibn Kathir; incomplete
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