al-Shafi'i
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
al-Shāfiʻī · الشافعي · the imam al-Shāfiʻī · their imam · الامام الشافعي · امامهم
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The founder of the Shāfiʻī school, named in the chain of transmission and then held up by the annotator as the pattern of scruple: he doubted that fiqh and hadith could be combined and refused to commit himself on unverified reports.
Ibn Ṭūlūn transmitted in his book al-Falak al-mashḥūn, from the imam al-Shāfiʻī, may God be pleased with him, that he said to one of his companions:
and those were the masters from whom al-Awzāʻī and al-Thawrī and Maʻmar and the two Ḥammāds and Zāʼidah and Mālik and al-Layth took it, and a host besides them among the shaykhs of Ibn al-Mubārak, Yaḥyā ibn al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn Mahdī, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, al-Shāfiʻī and al-Qaʻnabī;
The Shāfiʻī jurists are among the shrewdest of men and the most knowing in religion, for the foundation of their school is built upon following the established, connected hadiths, and their imam is one of the chiefs of the people of hadith, (1) and his merits are many.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Jurist whose ruling voids the legal testimony of anyone claiming to see the jinn.
whoever claims that he sees the jinn, we annul his testimony — unless he be a prophet.
) and this is to be understood of one who claims to see them in the forms in which they were created.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The jurist al-Shāfiʻī, cited here as a poet and exemplar of indifference to clothing.
And thus al-Shāfiʻī said to a man who found fault with him for not attending to his clothes as that man judged fitting for himself, for all his own neglect of his soul:
Though a copper coin be above the worth of my garment — yet within it I have a soul beneath whose worth all mankind falls Your garment is a sun with darkness beneath its rays — and my garment a night with the sun beneath its gloom