Imam al-Muwaffaq bi-llāh al-Jurjānī (D. 420AH)
Imam al-Muwaffaq Billāh al-Jurjānī
Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl — Peace Be Upon Him
Imam Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Muwaffaq Billāh al-Jurjānī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shajarī ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (may God be pleased with him and His peace be upon him). He was among the companions of Imam al-Muʾayyad Billāh.
He was unmatched in his age across all the branches of knowledge:
He reached, in the science of letters — in grammar and lexicography — what none of the people of his age reached; in poetry he was foremost; in sermons he was of the highest rank; and in writing and epistles he was of the loftiest degree. Then, in the science of theology and the foundations of religion, he was at the utmost limit; and in the principles of jurisprudence he had a vast amplitude.
He was more knowledgeable of the jurisprudence of the Ḥanafīs, the Shāfiʿīs, and the Mālikīs than their own verifying jurists — and they would not dispute with him in that. His compositions bear witness to that, and they are extant and well-known.
— Imam al-Manṣūr Billāh ʿAbdullāh ibn Ḥamzah, in Al-Shāfī1
- Kitāb al-Iʿtibār wa-Salwat al-ʿĀrifīn — The Lesson and the Solace of the Knowers
- Kitāb al-Iḥāṭa — on the science of theology
He died approximately after the year 420 AH. May God’s mercy and peace be upon him.
Scholarly References & Annotations
Al-Shāfī — by Imam al-Manṣūr Billāh ʿAbdullāh ibn Ḥamzah (peace be upon him).