Ibn hajar al-asqalani biography of nancy pelosi

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)

For the 16th-century Sunni Muslim Shafi'i scholar, see Ibn Hajar al-Haytami.

Sheikhul Islam Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (Arabic: ابن حجر العسقلاني;^[a] 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar,^[1] was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith."^[9] He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari.^[10] He is known by the honorific epithets Hafiz al-Asr "Hafiz of the Time", Shaykh al-Islam "Shaykh of Islam", and Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith "Leader of the Believers in Hadith".^[11]

Early life

He was born in Cairo in 1372, the son of the Shafi'i scholar and poet Nur ad-Din 'Ali.

His parents had moved from Alexandria, originally hailing fr