Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-Ḥāfiẓ · al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar · the Shāfiʻī chief judge · ابن حجر · الحافظ · الحافظ ابن حجر · قاضي القضاة الشافعي
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Shāfiʻī chief judge identified by gloss in the story of the man accused over prophecy, criticized for deflecting the case to the Mālikī court whose ruling he himself believed erroneous, and cited elsewhere as the transmitter of al-Dhahabī's own words on Ibn Taymīyah.
“I once heard a man fall into grievous speech touching prophecy, and I wished to bring him before the Shāfiʻī chief judge” — he means Ibn Ḥajar — “and I told him the story, and he said to me:
[18] (1) Among the things al-Dhahabī says concerning him is what Ibn Ḥajar transmitted in al-Durar al-kāminah:
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The traditionist whose Fatḥ al-bārī supplies the whole discussion of Jibrīl's assumption of human form, including the opinions of Imām al-Ḥaramayn, Ibn ʻAbd al-Salām and Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī, and his own verdict that the surplus measure is merely hidden from the beholder.
al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar reported in Fatḥ al-bārī, from Imām al-Ḥaramayn, that Jibrīl's taking on human form means that God annihilated the surplus of his frame, or removed it from him, and then restored it to him afterwards.