Muḥammad ibn al-Hasan Abū Jaf̓ar al-Tūsī

995–1067

3 standalone books

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tūsī, known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah, was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar of Persian descent. He was a jurist, mufassir, theologian, and hadith compiler who authored two of the Four Books of Shia hadith, including Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar. He is believed to have founded the Hawza of Najaf and was a scholar of ʾUṣūl al-Fiqh, regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in Shi’i history.

Born

995