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The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-madhhab al-shāfiʿī) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
Shafi’i, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, derived from the teachings of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i (767–820). This legal school (madhhab) stabilized the bases of Islamic legal theory, affirming the authority of both divine law-giving and human speculation regarding the law.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 15, 2021 · The Shafi’i madhhab is the most widespread madhhab in the countries of the Middle East (such as Syria, Jordan etc.) and in the cuntries of Far East such as (Indonesia, Malaysia etc.) According to estimations, approximately 25% of the Muslim population around the world follows the Shafi’i school.
- Early Life
- Notable Contribution
- Notable Generosity
The father of Imam Shafi’i died in Ash-Sham while he was still a child. After the death of his father, Imam Shafi’i mother moved to Makkah, when Imam Shafi’i was only two years old. His maternal family roots were from Yemen and there were also some family members in Makkah, where his mother believed and hoped that he would be taken good care of. Im...
Imam Shafi’i’s most notable contribution to the academic body of Islamic knowledgeis the establishment of the sound foundations of the principles of Islamic Jurisprudence formalizing them in his famous work called Al-Risala regarded by many as the most important academic work on the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence. In the minds of some people h...
When Imam Shafi’i moved to Makkah as a seasoned scholar in his later years, he had nearly 10,000 dinars with him which was a huge amount of money in those days. However, on the outskirts of the city, he came across a group of people who were very poor and destitute which affected him so much that he distributed that entire sum of money amongst them...
- The Hanafi School. The Imam of this school was called Abu Hanifah, Nu`man bin Thabit (may Allah have mercy upon him). He was of Persian origin. He was born in Kufa, Iraq, in the year 80 AH.
- The Maliki School. The Imam of this school is Malik bin Anas (may Allah have mercy upon him) who was born in 95 AH and passed away in 179 AH at the age of 86.
- The Shafi’i School. The Imam of this school is Muhammad bin Idris (may Allah have mercy upon him). He was born in Gazzah in the year 150AH on the very day that Imam Abu Hanifah passed away.
- The Hanbali School. The Imam of this school is Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy upon him) who was born in 164 A.H and passed away in 241 A.H at the age of 77.
The main reference works of the four schools. One: the Hanafi school. Among the best known works that explain the Hanafi school of Fiqh is Ibn 'Abidin’s Radd al-Muhtar 'ala al-Durr al-Mukhtar; Mas'ud al-Kasani’s Bada’i' al-Sana’i' fi Tartib al-Shara’i'; and Ibn al-Hammam’s Fath al-Qadir. Two: the Maliki school.
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The Shafi'i School is one of the four major Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence, founded by the scholar Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i in the 9th century. This school emphasizes a systematic methodology for deriving legal rulings based on the Quran, Hadith, consensus (ijma), and analogical reasoning (qiyas).
