Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (died 1448)

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most…