A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   The following is adapted and extracted from “ Biographies of Some of the Aswhab al-Wujuh in the Shafi’i Madzhab .”   The Aswhab al-Wujuh are the scholars who developed and transmitted the Shafi’i madzhab from the time of the immediate students of Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi’i ( r.a. ), circa 200 AH, to the time of Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali ( r.a. ), circa 500 AH.   Thereafter there was a pressing need for recension of all this development into a single body of work.   This task was met by Imam Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad ar-Rafi’i ( r.a. ) and Imam Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi ( r.a. ), who became known as the Shaykhayn in the madzhab .   Imam Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Abu Thahir Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Iswfrayini ( r.a. ) was the Shaykh of the Shafi’i’s in Baghdad, in his time.   He was born in the year 344 AH.   He studied under Imam Abu al-Hasan ...