Al-Intiqa’ fī Fada’il al-A’immah al-Thalathah al-Fuqaha’: Arabic, New,*[A4] Hardback - 437 pages,by Al-Imam Yusuf ibn Abd'Allah ibn 'Abd al-Barr,Tahqiq by Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah,Published by Dar al-Islam al-Bashayr al-Islamiyyah.Description :Al-Intiqa’ fī Fada’il al-A’immah al-Thalathah al-Fuqaha’, wa Mālik ibn Anas al-Asbahī al-Madanī, wa-Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfi‘ī Muttalibī , wa-Abī Hanīfah al-Nu‘mān ibn Thābit al-Kūfī, wa-‘uyūn akhbarihim al-shāhidah bi-imamatihim wa-fadlihim fī ādābihim wa-‘ilmihim.Imam ibn Abd al-Barr : He is Yûsuf ibn `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad Ibn `Abd al-Barr, Abû `Umar al-Namarî al-Andalusî al-Qurtubî al-Mâlikî (368-463h). A major hadîth Master of the Mâlikî School. Ibn Farhûn says he was the greatest memoriser of the Sunna in his time and Ibn al-Subkî mentions him in the fifth synchronical layer of those who followed the School of al-Ash`arî in doctrine along with Abû al-Walîd al-Bâjî, Abû al-Hasan al-Qâbisî, Abû al-Qâsim ibn `Asâkir, Abû al-Hasan al-Murâdî, Abû Sa`d ibn al-Sam`ânî, Abû Tâhir al-Silafî, al-Qâdî `Iyâd, and al-Shahrastânî. He studied under Ibn al-Makwî, Ibn al-Fardî, Ahmad ibn `Abd al-Mâlik ibn Hishâm, and took hadîth from Sa`îd ibn Nasr, `Abd al-Wârith, Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Bazzâr, Khalf ibn Sahl, Abû `Umar al-Talamankî, and many others. Imam Al-Qurtubî cites him about five hundred times in his Tafsîr. Of his book al-Tamhîd his friend Ibn Hazm said:
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