Back شمس الأئمة السرخسي Arabic شمس الائمه السرخسى ARZ İmam Səraxsi Azerbaijani আবু বাকার আল সারাখসি Bengali/Bangla As-Sarachsī German شمس الائمه سرخسی Persian Sarakhsi French Abu Bakr Sarakhsi Italian شمس الائمہ سرخسی PNB Мухаммад ас-Сарахси Russian
Abu Bakr al-Sarakhsi | |
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أبوبکر محمد بن أبی سهل السرخسی | |
| Title | The sun of the leaders (شمس الأئمة) |
| Personal life | |
| Born | |
| Died | 483 Hijri (1090 CE) |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Region | Greater Khorasan |
| Main interest(s) | |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Mabsut, Usul al-Sarakhsi, Shar al-Siyar al-Kabir |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Muslim leader | |
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Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Abi Sahl Abu Bakr al-Sarakhsi (Persian: محمد بن احمد بن ابي سهل ابو بكر السرخسي), was a Persian jurist and also an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of thought. He was traditionally known as Shams al-A'imma (شمس الأئمة; transl. The sun of the leaders).[1]
He is an influential jurist in the Hanafi school where the tradition is reported to have been that: "when in doubt, follow Sarakhsi".[2] Both Al-Kasani and Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, in their flagship fiqh books of Bada'i' al-Sana'i' and Al-Hidaya, have extensively drawn upon the discussions and legal reasonings presented in al-Sarakhsi's Al-Mabsut and Usul al-Sarakhsi.[2]
The Indian Muslim scholar of the 19th century, Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi, classifies al-Sarakhsi in the second grade of mujtahids, along with scholars such as Al-Tahawi, who are believed to be the seminal jurists after Abu Hanifa's students (i.e. Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani).[3]
- ^ Norman Calder, Jawid Ahmad Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin, ed. and tr., Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (Routledge, 2003), p. 210.
- ^ a b Al-Sarakhsi, Money Exchange, Loans, and Riba: A translation of Kitab al-Sarf from Kitab al-Mabsut, translated by Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Advanced Legal Studies Institute, Islamabad, 2018.
- ^ Al-Marghinani, Burhan al-Din, Al-Hidayah, translated by Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Center for Excellence in Research, Islamabad, 2016, page 9.