IMAM TAHAWI

Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad At-Tahaawee, Imaam Abu Ja'far at-Tahaawee was a famous Sunni Islamic scholor. He was born in 239H.

His Teachers

The list of his teacher is endless,same very famous of them are:

• Haroon Ibn Saeed Ali

• Raabi ibn Sulaimaan Jeezi

• Abu Ibraheem Ismaael Ibn Yahya Muzani

• Yunus ibn Abdul A’ala Sadafi Misri

• Ali ibn Saeed Ibn Nooh

• Eesa Ibn Ibraaheem Ghafiqi

• Sulaimaan Ibn shuib Kaiysaani

• Abu Qurah Muhammad ibn Humaid Ru’aini

• Malik Ibn Abdullah Tujaibi

• Ibraheem ibn Mazrooq

His Students

He had hundreds of students among them are :

• Hafiz Abu Qasim Sulaiman ibn Ahmad Tabrani

• Hafiz Abu Saeed Abdurrahman ibn Ahmad ibn Misri

• Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ibraheem Muqree

• Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Jafar Baghdadi

• Ali ibn Ahmad Misri

• Maslamah ibn Qasim Qurtubi

His Works

• Mukhtasarut Tahawi

• Bayan Mushkilul Athar

• Aqeedatut Tahawi

• Naqdhu Kitaabil Mudaliseen

• At Taswiyah Bayna Haddathanaa wa Akhbaranaa’

• Ikhtilaafil Ulamaa

• Ahkaamul Qur’aan

Status among Scholars

Ibn Yunus says: “Tahaawi was a reliable trustworthy Faqeeh [Jurist] He was the last of a generation, No one like him was born thereafter.”

Allaamah Badrud Deen ‘Aini R.A. states: “There is Ijmaa’ (consensus of opinion) on Tahaawi’s Thaqaahat, Diyaanat, Amaanat and Fadheelatul Kaamilah [i.e. His being an authority; his reliability and trustworthiness and his perfect virtues and qualities in the field of Deen and Ilm].”

His Death

Imaam At-Tahaawee died on a Thursday at the beginning of Dhul-Qa'adah in 321H and was buried in the Qaraafah graveyard in Egypt. May Allaah have mercy on him.

References

Biography of Imam Tahawi By Mufti SEED Ahmad Palanpuri