The Shāfiʻīs

Kānat himmatuka fī ṭalab al-fiqh al-jidāl wa-al-mirāʼ wa-al-intiṣār li-madhhabika ʻalá kull ḥāl wa-taḥṣīl al-madāris wa-al-ʻulūw fa-mādhā fiqhan ukhrawīyan bal dhā fiqh dunyawī fa-mā aẓunnuka taqūl ghadan bayna yaday Allāh taʻālá taʻallamtu al-ʻilm li-wajhika wa-ʻallamtuhu fīka fa-iḥdhar an taghlaṭ wa-taqūlahā fa-yuqāl laka kadhabta innamā taʻallamta li-yuqāl ʻālim wa-qad qīla thumma yuʼmar bika masḥūban ilá al-nār kamā rawāhu Muslim fī al-Ṣaḥīḥ fa-lā taʻtaqid anna madhhabaka afḍal al-madhāhib wa-aḥabbuhā ilá Allāh taʻālá fa-innaka lā dalīl laka ʻalá dhālika wa-lā li-mukhālifika ayḍan bal al-aʼimmah raḍiya Allāh ʻanhum kulluhum ʻalá khayr kathīr wa-lahum fī ṣawābihim ajrān ʻalá kull masʼalah wa-fī khaṭaʼihim ajr ʻalá kull masʼalah .

( al-Shāfiʻīyah )

al-Fuqahāʼ al-Shāfiʻīyah min akyas al-nās wa-aʻlamuhum bi-al-dīn fa-uss madhhabihim mabnī ʻalá ittibāʻ al-aḥādīth al-thābitah al-muttaṣilah wa-imāmuhum min ruʼūs aṣḥāb al-ḥadīth (١) wa-manāqibuhu jammah fa-in ḥaṣṣalta yā hādhā madhhabahu li-tadīn Allāh bihi wa-tadfaʻ ʻan nafsika al-jahl fa-anta bi-khayr wa-in kānat himmatuka ka-himmat ikhwānika min al-fuqahāʼ al-baṭṭālīn alladhīna qaṣduhum al-manāṣib wa-al-madāris wa-al-dunyā wa-al-rafāhīyah wa-al-thiyāb al-fākhirah fa-mā dhā barakat al-ʻilm wa-lā hādhihi nīyah khāliṣah bal dhā bayʻ lil-ʻilm bi-ḥusn ʻibārah wa-taʻajjul lil-ajr wa-taḥammul lil-wizr wa-ghaflah ʻan Allāh taʻālá fa-law kunta dhā ṣanʻah la-kunta bi-khayr taʼkul kull min kasb yamīnika wa-ʻaraq jabīnika wa-tazdarī nafsaka wa-lā tatakabbar bi-al-ʻilm aw kunta dhā tijārah la-kunta tushbih ʻulamāʼ al-salaf alladhīna mā abṣarū al-madāris wa-lā samiʻū bi-al-jihāt wa-harabū lammā lil-qaḍāʼ ṭulibū wa-taʻabbadū bi-ʻilmihim wa-badhalūhu lil-nās wa-raḍū bi-thawb khām wa-kisrah kamā kāna min qarīb al-imām Abū Isḥaq ṣāḥib al-Tanbīh wa-kamā kāna bi-al-ams al-shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ṣāḥib kitāb al-Minhāj wa-kamā tará al-yawm Sayyidī ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl , wa-ʻalá kull taqdīr iḥdhar al-mirāʼ fī al-baḥth wa-in kunta muḥiqqan wa-lā tunāziʻ fī masʼalah lā taʻtaqiduhā wa-iḥdhar al-kibr wa-al-ʻujb bi-ʻilmika fa-yā saʻādataka in najawta minhu kafāfan lā ʻalayka wa-lā laka fa-wa-Allāh mā ramaqat ʻaynī awsaʻ ʻilman wa-lā aqwá dhakan min rajul yuqāl lahu Ibn Taymīyah maʻa al-zuhd fī al-maʼkal wa-al-malbas wa-al-nisāʼ wa-maʻa al-qiyām fī al-ḥaqq wa-al-jihād bi-kull mumkin wa-qad taʻibtu fī waznihi wa-qatshihi ḥattá malaltu fī sinīn mutaṭāwilah fa-mā wajadtu ākhirahu bayna ahl Miṣr wa-al-Shām wa-maqatatʹhu nufūsuhum wa-izdarū bihi wa-kadhdhabūhu wa-kaffarūhu illā al-kibr wa-al-ʻujb wa-farṭ al-gharām fī riyāsat al-mashyakhah wa-al-izdirāʼ

— al-ḥawāshī —

[16] (١) wa-hādhā yarudd ʻalá mā yarwīhi Ibn al-Farrāʼ bi-ṭarīq Ibn Abī Ḥātim ʻan Aḥmad : kāna al-Shāfiʻī faqīhan wa-lam takun lahu maʻrifah fī al-ḥadīth h . Wa-ʻalá mā yaqūluhu al-qāḍī

[17] ʻIyāḍ fī al-Madārik : nusallim lahu al-imāmah fī al-fiqh wa-ḥusn al-iʻtibār wa-laysa lahu imāmah fī al-ḥadīth wa-lā maʻrifah bihi h . Wa-al-muʼallif Shāfiʻī al-furūʻ Ḥanbalī al-muʻtaqad ( ʻalá muṣṭalaḥihim )