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Keeper of the Words: The Life of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, the Scholar Who Spent Twenty-Five Years Preserving the Prophet's Words

Keeper of the Words: The Life of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, the Scholar Who Spent Twenty-Five Years Preserving the Prophet's Words

Hikma, Narin

Paperback

Religious BiographiesIslam

ISBN13: 9798183604610
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

He was four months old when his father died. Four years old when his mother died. The city of Cairo took him in, and the tradition took him in after that, and he spent the next seventy-five years giving everything he had back to it.

Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - known to the Islamic scholarly world simply as al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, the Guardian - is one of the most important figures in the fourteen-century history of hadith scholarship. His commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, the Fath al-Bari, took twenty-five years to write and has been the standard reference work for Islamic scholars ever since its completion in December 1428. Six hundred years later, it is still in print. It is still being read. It is still essential.

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