# Snapshot Baghawī (435-516 AH, 81 y) came from a humble background with is father being a fur trader. He would become one of the leading scholars of tafsīr, hadith and fiqh. He wrote extensively on these topics and is considered one of the leading authorities in the Shafi'ī madhab. One of his leading books is called Maṣābīḥ al-Sunnah (a collection of around 4434 hadith) which was then later expanded and revised to become Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ “Niche of Lanterns" (5945 hadith) by [[(741 AH) Khāṭīb al-Tibrīzi]] # His works ## Maṣābīh al-Sunnah # References | Arabic Text | Translation | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | البغوي، أبو محمد (ت ٥١٦ هـ). | Al-Baghawi, Abu Muhammad (d. 516 AH). | | الحسين بن مسعود بن محمد بن الفراء، البغوي الشافعي، صاحب التصانيف، الملقّب بركن الدين، وبمحيي السنة. | Al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Muhammad ibn al-Farra, al-Baghawi al-Shafi'i, the author of many works, nicknamed Rukun al-Din and Muhyi al-Sunnah. | | محدِّث فقيه مفسر، تفقّه على القاضي حسين بن محمد شيخ الشافعية، وسمع منه، ومن أبي عمر عبد الواحد المليحي، وغيرهم. | A hadith scholar, jurist, and interpreter. He studied jurisprudence under Al-Qadi Hussain ibn Muhammad, the Shafi'i master, and heard from him, as well as from Abu Umar Abdul Wahid al-Malihi and others. | | كان سيدًا إمامًا عالمًا علامة، زاهدًا قانعًا باليسير. | He was a noble, imam, scholar, and a renowned figure, ascetic, content with the little. | | كان أبوه يعمل الفراء ويبيعها. | His father worked with fur and sold it. | | بُورك له في تصانيفه، ورُزق فيها القبول التام، لحُسن قصده، وصدق نيته، وتنافس العلماء في تحصيلها. | His works were blessed, and they gained complete acceptance due to his good intentions, sincerity, and the competition among scholars to acquire them. | | من مصنفاته المفيدة: شرح السنّة، وهو كتاب عظيم في بابه لا يستغني عنه طالب علم. | Among his useful works: "Explanation of the Sunnah," a great book in its field, indispensable to any student of knowledge. | | ومعالم التنزيل؛ والمصابيح؛ والتهذيب في فقه الشافعية؛ والجمع بين الصحيحين؛ وكتاب الأربعين حديثًا وغيرها. | "Ma'alim al-Tanzeel," "Al-Misbah," "Al-Tahdheeb in Shafi'i Jurisprudence," "The Collection of the Two Sahihs," "The Forty Hadith," and others. | | توفي بمرو الرُّوذ، (مدينة من مدائن خراسان). | He died in Merv al-Rudh, a city in Khurasan. | | [أفاد محقق شرح السنة أن جميع من ترجم له أرخ وفاته ٥١٦ هـ سوى ابن خلكان فأرخ وفاته ٥١٠ هـ)] | [The editor of the "Explanation of the Sunnah" mentioned that all who have translated him recorded his death as 516 AH, except Ibn Khalkan, who recorded it as 510 AH.] | | نقلا عن الموسوعة العربية العالمية [http](http://www.mawsoah.net)[://www](http://www.mawsoah.net)[.mawsoah](http://www.mawsoah.net)[.net](http://www.mawsoah.net) | Quoted from the Encyclopedia of the Arab World [[http](http://www.mawsoah.net)[://www](http://www.mawsoah.net)[.mawsoah](http://www.mawsoah.net)[.net](http://www.mawsoah.net)]. |