Taqi al-Din al-Fasi

Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi (Arabic: تقي الدين أبي الطيب محمد بن أحمد الفاسي‎, 8 September 1373, in Mecca, Hejaz – 6 July 1429, in Mecca, Hejaz) was an Arab Muslim scholar, hafith, faqih, historian, and Maliki qadi (judge) in Mecca.[1]

Shaykh al-Islām, Maliki Qadi of Mecca, Hejaz Taqi al-Din al-Fasi
Born	Muhammad ibn Ahmed al-Fasi 8 September 1373 Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia, now Saudi Arabia
Died	6 July 1429 (aged 55) Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia, now Saudi Arabia
Resting place	Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia, now Saudi Arabia
Notable works	Al-Iqd us-Sameen Fi Tareekh Balad-ul-Ameen

He is best known for his works on the history of Mecca and its rulers and notable natives, which reached around 18 works.[2] He also wrote on the genealogies of some Arab tribes of Tihamah.

Life

He was born on Thursday, 8 September 1373 in Mecca, Hejaz, now Saudi Arabia, but spent part of his early life in Medina He eventually returned to Mecca where he took knowledge from its scholars.[3] His family claimed descent from the Prophet Muhammad through his grandson, Hasan ibn Ali.[4] He was a teacher of Maliki fiqh at the Ghiyathiyyah Madrasah in Makkah, which was considered one of the best Islamic institutions in the country and was funded by the Sultan of Bengal Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah.[5][6] He went blind four years before his death in 1425 AD. He died on Wednesday 6 July 1429 at the age of 55 in Mecca, Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula, now Saudi Arabia.

Works

• Al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fī tārīkh al-Balad al-Amīn (العقد الثمين فى تاريخ البلد الأمين): His largest and most important work, and probably the largest in the field of Meccan history, where he compiled the biographies of Meccans from the early days of Islam up until his time.
• Shifāʼ al-gharām bi-akhbār al-Balad al-Ḥarām (شفاء الغرام بأخبار البلد الحرام)
• Al-Muqniʻ min akhbār al-mulūk wa-al-khulafāʼ wa-wulāt Makkah al-shurafā (المقنع من أخبار الملوك والخلفاء وولاة مكة الشرفاء)
• Al-Zuhūr al-muqtaṭafah min tārīkh Makkah al-Musharrafah (الزهور المقتطفة من تاريخ مكة المشرفة)
• Dhayl al-taqīīd fī rūāh al-sunan wa al-masānīd (ذيل التقييد بمعرفة رواة السنن والمسانيد)

References

1. Ibn Fahd, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad. Laḥẓ al-Alḥāẓ bi-Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ. p. 291.
2. Al-dāmigh, Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Muḥammad (1991). Taqī al-Dīn al-Fasi wa-manhajuhu fī al-tadwīn al-tārīkhī ʻinda al-ʻArab. p. 142.
3. Hīlah, Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb (1994). al-Tārīkh wa-al-muʼarrikhūn bi-Makkah min al-qarn al-thālith al-Hijrī ilá al-qarn al-thālith ʻashar : jamʻ wa-ʻarḍ wa-taʻrīf. p. 114.
4. Meloy, John Lash (2015-04-01). "al-Fāsī, Taqī l-Dīn". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
5. Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf (2015). Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early Muslim Rulers of Bengal (1205-1494). Routledge.
6. Abdul Karim (2012). "Ghiyasia Madrasa". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. Retrieved 28 January 2021.