Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Idris Imam Shafi al-Muttalabi al-Qurashi (150-204 AH / 767-820 AD is one of the four Imams in the Sunni sect and is the owner of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence. He is anmed Imam Shafi. He is also given the title of the Shaykh al-Islām.
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He was also a well-known justice of his time and the author of the book al-Shafi’i. He was the great theologian and the scholar and thinker of the Islamic teachings. He is said to be the very first person in the Islamic history who contributed toward the principles of the Islamic jurisprudence. He was also the most famous student of a renowned Muslim scholar, Malik ibn Anas. His was also given the charge of governorship of the province of Najar for some years. After completing the early education at home and in the various maddarassa, he moved to the Madnia so that further study in the disciplines of the Islamic rules and principles that are desidgen from the life of the last prophet of Islam.
It was the tradition in those days that the learners had to travel long for getting and acquiring knowledge in different disciplines and departments. He went on studying for many years to quench the thirst for knowledge. When his learned teacher passed away, he had become a famous scholar among the learned personalities of the time. Imam Shafi was not totally in agreement with the some of the views of his learned teacher, yet he never showed any sign of disrespect for him.
At the age of thirty, al-Shāfi‘ī was appointed as the ‘Abbasid governor of the Yemeni town of Najran. He proved to be a simply administrator however quickly have become entangled with factional jealousies. In 803 CE, al-Shāfi‘ī changed into accused of helping the ‘Alids in a revolt, and changed into for this reason summoned in chains with a number of of ‘Alids to the Caliph Harun ar-Rashid at Raqqa. Whilst different conspirators had been positioned to death, al-Shafi’i’s personal eloquent protection satisfied the Caliph to push aside the charge. Other debts kingdom that the well-known Hanafi jurist, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī, changed into gift on the courtroom docket and defended al-Shāfi‘ī as a famous scholar of the sacred law.
What changed into a positive change was that the incident delivered al-Shāfi‘ī into near touch with al-Shaybānī, who could quickly come to be his teacher. It was additionally postulated that this unlucky incident impelled him to dedicate the remainder of his profession to criminal studies, by no means once more to look for authorities’ service. Apprenticeship under Al-Shaybānī and exposure to Hanafī Jurists
It became right here that al-Shāfi’ī actively participated in criminal arguments with the Hanafī jurists, strenuously protecting the Mālikī faculty of thought. Some government tried to put pressure about the problems encountered in his arguments. Al-Shāfi’ī in the end left Baghdad for Mecca in 804 CE, likely due to proceedings through Hanafī fans to al-Shaybānī that al-Shafi’i had come to be truly important of al-Shaybānī’s role for the duration of their disputes. As a result, al-Shāfi’ī reportedly participated in a debate with al-Shaybānī over their differences, even though it cost him great loss.
