IslHornAfr

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al-Šāfiʻī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Idrīs b. al-ʻAbbās b. ʻUṯmān b. Šāfiʻ b. al-Sā'ib b. ʻUbayd b. ʻAbd Yazīd b. Hāšim b. al-Muṭṭalib b. ʻAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy al-Qurašī الشافعي, ابو عبد الله محمد بن ادريس بن العباس بن عثمان بن شافع بن السائب بن عبيد بن عبد يزيد بن هاشم بن المطلب بن عبد مناف بن قصي القرشي

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Eponym of the Šāfiʻī school of jurisprudence. He revolutionized the approach to sources, balancing the use of ḥadīṯ with a limited recourse to the reasoning of the jurist. More than hundred works are attributed to him. Among those are the Kitāb al-Umm and the Risala.

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