Aswhab al-Wujuh: Imam Abu Ya’qub Yusuf ibn Yahya al-Buwayti (r.a.) in Brief
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 . The first of these Aswhab al-Wujuh was Imam Abu Ya’qub Yusuf ibn Yahya al-Buwayti ( r.a. ). He was the successor the Imam ash-Shafi’i ( r.a. ), and accounted his greatest student. Those who knew him de...