Application of the biography of Al-Shafi’i 2021
Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Idris al-Shafi’i al-Muttalabi al-Qurashi (150-204 AH / 767-820 AD) is the third of the four imams among the Sunnis and the group, the owner of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, and the founder of the science of jurisprudence, and he is also an imam in the science of interpretation and the science of hadith. A judge known for justice and intelligence. In addition to religious sciences, al-Shafi'i was an eloquent poet, a skilled archer, and a traveler. Most scholars praised him, until Imam Ahmad said in him: “Al-Shafi’i was like the sun to the world, and health to people.”
Al-Shafi’i was born in Gaza in 150 AH, and his mother moved him to Mecca when he was two years old, so he memorized the Holy Qur’an when he was seven years old, and he memorized Al-Muwatta when he was ten years old, then he started seeking knowledge in Mecca until he was given permission to give fatwas when he was under twenty years old. Al-Shafi’i immigrated to Medina to seek knowledge with Imam Malik bin Anas, then moved to Yemen and worked in it, then moved to Baghdad in the year 184 AH. Al-Maliki) and the jurisprudence of Iraq (the Hanafi school). Al-Shafi’i returned to Mecca and lived there for almost nine years, and began to teach in the Great Mosque of Mecca, then traveled to Baghdad for the second time, and presented it in the year 195 AH. In Egypt, Al-Shafi’i reclassified the book Al-Risala, which he wrote for the first time in Baghdad, and began spreading his new doctrine, arguing with its opponents, and teaching science students, until he died in Egypt in the year 204 AH.