Ahmad Muhammad Shakir
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Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir | |
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| Born | January 29, 1892 |
| Died | June 14, 1958 (aged 66) |
| Region | Cairo, Egypt |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith |
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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
External links
Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Ahmed Shaker's Profile in islamonline.net Template:Ar icon
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