Al-Muzani

Isma'il ibn Yahya Al-Muzani
Isma'il ibn Yahya Al-Muzani
Personal
Born	AH 174 (790/791) CE
Died	AH 264 (877/878) CE; Cairo, Egypt
Religion	Islam
Era	Abbasid Caliphate
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Al-Shafi'i, Ahmad ibn Hanbal;
	Influenced Al-Tahawi;

Abū Ibrāīm Ismā'īl ibn Yahyā Ibn Ismā'īl Ibn 'Amr Ibn Muslim Al-Muzanī Al-Misrī (791–878 AD/ 174-264 Hijri) was an Islamic jurist and theologian and one of leading member of Shafi'i school. A native of Cairo, he was a close disciple and companion of Imam Shafi'i. He has been called Al-Imam, al-'Allamah, Faqih al-Millah, and 'Alam az-Zahad.^[2] He was skilled in the legal verdicts and became one of the inheritors of Imam Shafi’i. Imam Shafi’i said about him: " al-Muzani is the standard-bearer of my school". He lived an ascetic life and died at the age of 89 on the 24th of Ramadan 264/30 May 878 and was buried near Imam al-Shafi'i.

^ "Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal and the Qur'an". jstor.org. JSTOR. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Men would assert as a badge of orthodoxy that their creed was Aḥmad's (e.g. Muzanī, Ṭabirī, Ashʿarī).
^ "الكتب - سير أعلام النبلاء - الطبقة الرابعة عشر - المزني- الجزء رقم12". library.islamweb.net. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.

[1] "Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal and the Qur'an". jstor.org. JSTOR. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Men would assert as a badge of orthodoxy that their creed was Aḥmad's (e.g. Muzanī, Ṭabirī, Ashʿarī).

[2] "الكتب - سير أعلام النبلاء - الطبقة الرابعة عشر - المزني- الجزء رقم12". library.islamweb.net. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.

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