Zafar al-Amani : [Mustalah al-Hadith] Arabic, New,
bi Sharh Mukhtasar al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani,
*[A4] Large Hardback - 801 pages,
by Imam 'Abd al-Hayy al-Lacknawi [d.1304h],
Edited by Shaykh Abdul Fattah al-Ghuddah,
Published by Dar al-Bashair al-Islamiyah, Beirut.




Description :

Zafar al-Amani bi Sharh Mukhtasar al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani fi Mustalat al-Hadith, this is book 7 of the 'Mu’allafat al-Imam al-Laknawī' Series, being an explanation of the Mukhtasar of Imam al-Jurjani in the sciences of hadith.


Compiled by Imam Muhammad 'Abd al-Hayy al-Laknawi (1264/1848 - 1304-1887, India), a muhaddith from India, with editing of the Syrian scholar Abd al-Fattah abu Ghuddah.





Imam 'Abd al-Hayy al-Lacknawi [1264 - 1304 after Hijri]
 
He is 'Abu l-Hasanat 'Abd al-Hayy bin Muhammad 'Abd al-Haleem al-Ansari al-Lakhnawi (1264-1304 AH / 1848-1887 CE). He was the author of many famous works and a renowned scholar of his time. He was born in Banda, India and was a descendend from the Sahabah - Sayyidina Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, radi Allahu ta'ala anhu.  His predecessors emigrated from Madinah Munawwarah to Hirat, then to Lahore, Delhi and finally to Sihala and Firangi Mahal near Lucknow.


Imam 'Abd al-Hayy memorised the Noble Qur'an at the age of ten. He studied some Persian books under his learned father and continued learning many sciences, so much so that he began teaching many of the books he had learnt himself under various scholars. The Mufti of Makkah, Shaykh Ahmad ibn Zain Dahlan, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi, granted him permission for all isnad (chain of narration) from Al-Hidayah of Marghinanai as well as what he had learnt from all his teachers.

 
He passed away in Rabi ul Awwal 1304h. at the young age of 39 and was buried in the graveyard of his ancestors.




Shaykh ʿAbd al-Fattāh Abū Ghudda (1917-1997)

Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda was a leading scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences specialising in hadith. He was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1917. He was considered as one of the outstanding scholars of the 20th century.


Shaykh Abu Ghuddah as well as a renowned scholar of Hadith was a scholar of the Hanafi school of Fiqh. He studied in Syria and Egypt specialising in Arabic Language, Hadith, Shariah and Psychology. He had many prominent teachers, amongst them Shaykh Ragib al-Tabbakh, Shaykh Ahmed ibn Muhamad al-Zaraqa, Shaykh Isa al-Bayanuni, Shaykh Ahmad al-Kurdi and the renouned Ottoman Scholar Imam al-Kawthari.







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*Dimensions : 24.8 x 18 x 5cm.