Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi


Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi, was an eminent Hanafi scholar, Qur'an exegete, and a Maturidi theologian. He is perhaps best known for his Tafsir Madarik al-Tanzil wa Haqa'iq al-Ta'wil.
He was one of the foremost figures of the classical period of Hanafi jurisprudence and one of the major scholars of the Maturidi school in the Sunni tradition, which developed in parallel with Hanafiyya, who made a tremendous contribution in the field of Islamic sciences in Central Asia, especially to the dissemination of the Hanafian order and teachings of the Maturidi school in the Islamic world and left a great amount of scientific heritage.
He successfully worked in different branches of Islamic studies such as tafsir, fiqh and kalam. For his contribution to Islamic sciences he was given an honorable title of Hafiz al-Din.
He was praised by 'Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi, and Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani described him as the 'Allamah of the World, and Ibn Taghribirdi gave him the honorable title of "Shaykh al-Islam".
Some scholars ranked him as mujtahid in Hanafi fiqh.

Name

Abu al-Barakat 'Abd Allah b. Ahmad b. Mahmud Hafiz al-Din al-Nasafi.

Birth

His birth date is unknown, but he was born in Izaj. It was also said that he was born in Nasaf in Sogdiana.

Teachers

He studied under some teachers and masters, such as:
His pupils were:
Some of his most celebrated works are:
He died in 710/1310 in Baghdad on a Friday evening of the month Rabi' al-Awwal. He was buried in the city of Izaj located between Khuzestan and Isfahan. According to Kurashi and Ibn Taghribirdi, his date of death was 701 AH = 1301 AD.