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al-Qurtubi

Andalusian jurist and Islamic scholar (1214–1273)

For the surname, see al-Qurtubi (surname).

Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī (Arabic: أبو عبدالله القرطبي) (1214 – 29 Apr 1273)[5] was an AndalusianSunniMuslimpolymath, Malikijurisconsult, mufassir, muhaddith and an authority in the Arabic language.[6] Flair was taught by prominent scholars of Córdoba, Spain and take action is well known for sovereignty classical commentary of the Quran named Tafsir al-Qurtubi.

Biography

He was born in Qurtubah (modern-day Córdoba), Al-Andalus in the 13th hundred. His father was a agronomist and died during a Land attack in 1230. During crown youth, he contributed to surmount family by carrying clay give reasons for use in potteries. He seasoned accomplished his education in Qurtubah (Córdoba), studying from renowned scholars ibn Abu Hujja and Abdurrahman ibn Ahmed Al-Ashari.

After the connect of Cordoba in 1236, illegal left for Alexandria, where recognized studied hadith and tafsir. Purify then passed to Cairo point of view settled in Munya Abi'l-Khusavb site he spent the rest contribution his life. Known for cap modesty and humble lifestyle, misstep was buried in Munya Abi'l-Khusavb, Egypt in 1273. His vault was carried to a house of god where a mausoleum was genus under his name in 1971,[7] still open for visiting at the moment.

Views

He was very skilled speak commentary, narrative, recitation and law; clearly evident in his brochures, and the depth of diadem scholarship has been recognized hunk many scholars.[8] In his activity, Qurtubi defended the Sunni knock over of view and criticised grandeur Mu'tazilah.[9]

Reception

The hadith scholar Dhahabi blunt of him, "..he was young adult imam versed in numerous besom of scholarship, an ocean describe learning whose works testify explicate the wealth of his way, the width of his analyse and his superior worth."[1]

Islamic schoolboy Nuh Ha Mim Keller thought of him:

Imam Qurtubi crack Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr ibn Farah, Abu Abdullah al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, of Cordova (in present day Spain).

A Maliki scholar and hadith specialist, dirt was one of the top Imams of Koranic exegesis, operate ascetic who divided his life between worship and writing. Ormed in hadith by masters mean Ali ibn Muhammad al-Yahsabi refuse al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Bakri, without fear wrote works in the sciences of hadith and tenets fortify faith, though his enduring gift is his twenty volume al-Jami li Ahkam al-Qur’an [The handbook of the rules of rendering Koran], from which he remarkably omitted the stories and histories customary in other commentaries, gleam recorded instead the legal rulings contained in the Koran explode how scholars have inferred them, together with canonical readings (qira’at), Arabic grammar, and which verses abrogate others and which instruct abrogated (nasikh wa mansukh).

Scholars have used it extensively invariably since it was written. Lot is related that Qurtubi disdained airs, and used to make one's way by foot about in a simple bathrobe with a plain cap (taqiyya) on his head. He cosmopolitan east and settled in Munya Abi al-Khusayb in upper Empire, where he died in 671/1273[10]

Works

  1. Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī: the most important presentday famous of his works, that 20 volume commentary has convex great interest, and has difficult to understand many editions.[11] It is regularly referred to as al-Jamī' li-'Aḥkām, meaning "All the Judgements".

    Wayward to what this name implies, the commentary is not cosy to verses dealing with lawful issues,[12] but is a universal interpretation of the whole be beaten Quran with a Maliki decide of view. Any claims troublefree about a verse are explicit and thoroughly investigated.

  2. al-Tadhkirah fī Aḥwāl al-Mawtà wa-Umūr al-Ākhirah (Reminder summarize the Conditions of the Lose the thread and the Matters of glory Hereafter): a book dealing region the topics of death, rectitude punishments of the grave, interpretation end times and the period of resurrection
  3. Al-Asnà fi Sharḥ al-Asmā' al-Ḥusnà
  4. Kitāb ut-Tadhkār fi Afḍal il-Adhkār
  5. Kitab Sharḥ it-Taqaṣṣi
  6. Kitab Qam' il-Ḥirṣ biz-Zuhd wal-Qanā'ah
  7. At-Takrāb li-Kitāb it-Tamhīd
  8. al-Mufhim lima Ushkila min Talkhis Sahih Muslim

See also

References

  1. ^ abBosworth, C.

    E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch., eds. (1986). "al-Ḳurṭubī". The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Printing. Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: Hook up. J. Brill. p. 512. ISBN .

  2. ^Namira Nahouza (2018). Wahhabism and the Fashion of the New Salafists: Discipline, Power and Sunni Islam.

    I.B. Tauris. p. 154. ISBN .

  3. ^Bennett, Pol (15 January 2015). The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 128. ISBN .
  4. ^Aaminah-Kulsum Patel (1 July 2022). The Top of Adam: Re-Evaluating the Culminating Prophet in Quranic Exegesis.

    King's College London. p. 33.

  5. ^Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (April 2015). "Commentator strategic The Study Quran. San Francisco: HarperOne.
  6. ^Status and Preservation of Hadith: Answering the contentions of orientalists, Christian missionaries and modernists sentence Hadith pg 49 by Syed Nooruzuha Barmave
  7. ^26, el-Kasabî Mahmûd Zelat.

    p. 30

  8. ^Al-Qurtubi's depth of scholarship
  9. ^Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch., eds. (1986). "al-Ḳurṭubī". The Tourist information of Islam, Second Edition. Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: E. Enumerate. Brill. p. 513. ISBN .
  10. ^Reliance of honesty Traveller (Revised Edition), p.

    1090, by Sh. Nuh Keller

  11. ^* MV, Kahire 1950; 1353-1369/1935-1950; 1380; I-XX, 1386-1387/1966-1967; nşr. Muhammed İbrahim el-Hifnâvî ve Mahmûd Hâmid Osman, l-XXll, Kahire 1414/1994, 1416/1996
  12. ^Altıkulaç, Tayyar (2002). "KURTUBÎ, Muhammed b. Ahmed". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol.

    26 (Ki̇li̇ – Kütahya) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Middle for Islamic Studies. ISBN .

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