Abu Bakir Al-Qaffal | Historical Study

Abstract

This research focuses on one of the most prominent scholars of Transoxiana, who had a prominent position among the scholars of the Shafii school and the school of Ashariyah, Abu Qafal al – Shashi the Great.The subject of the current research is the scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Ali bin Ismail, known as the great Shashi. He belongs to the town of the Shash and the great title is a distinction for him from his contemporary little Shashi. The Scholar under study belongs to Shafii doctrine in the jurisprudence, fundamentalist, Ashari, narrator, exegetist and poet. He was the first who was classified as controversy of scholars and through him spread the doctrine of Imam Shafii.Abu Bakr al – Shashi was born in the Year 291 after Hijra in the Shash, and then went to Khorasan, Iraq, to Kufa, and Sham, He met during his travels with a large number of scholars of Hadith and jurisprudence. AL- Shashi classified a number of books including (Dala AL- Nubuwa, Mahasin AL- Sharia, Jawamie AL-Kalim, interpretation of the Qoran, Adad AL-Qadhae, AL- fatawa, Sharh, AL- Risala AL- Shafieya).A large number of students studied at the hands of Shashi, like Ibn AL- Baie of the owner of AL- mustdrak, Imam AL-Hafiz AL- Jawal, and Abu al- Fath al- Omari and many others, all of the owners of the Shafii doctrine. AL- Shashi was praised by many scholars such as Ibn al- Salah, Abu Ishaq al – Suyuti, al- Shirazi, Abu al- Hasan al- Saffar, al- Hibbi and Ibn al- Mulqan.It is known that Abu Bakr al- Qaffal al Shashi was born in Shash city in the 291 after Hijra (204 AD). This city nowadays is called Tashkent in Uzbekistan and this country was mainly inhabited by pagan Turkish people, Buddhist religions, Samanian, Zeradashit and heavenly religions such as Judaism and Christianity. But Islam spread in it and the people converted to Islam and generations of Muslims emerged among them many scholars, especially in the main cities such as Bukhara and Samarkand. The Samaritans had great credit for the development of the Islamic intellectual movement in those regions, thanks to their interest in building mosques and schools and their care for scientists. This led to the emergence of senior Islamic scholars there, especially on the Hanafi and Shafii schools.