Sabtu, 18 Agustus 2012  Imam Shafi`i  by Dr. G.F. Haddad
Muhammad ibn Idris ibn al-`Abbas, al-Imam al-Shafi`i, Abu `Abd
Allah al-Shafi`i al-Hijazi al-Qurashi al-Hashimi al-Muttalibi
(d. 204), the offspring of the House of the Prophet, the
peerless one of the great mujtahid imams and jurisprudent par
excellence, the scrupulously pious ascetic and Friend of Allah,
he laid down the foundations of fiqh in his Risala, which he
said he revised and re-read four hundred times, then said: "Only
Allah’s Book is perfect and free from error."  He is the cousin
of the Prophet - Allah’s blessings and peace upon him -
descending from al-Muttalib who is the brother of Hashim, `Abd
al-Muttalib’s father. Someone praised the Banu Hashim in front
of the Prophet, whereby he interlaced the fingers of his two
hands and said: "We and they are but one and the same thing."
Al-Nawawi listed three peculiar merits of al-Shafi`i: his
sharing the Prophet’s lineage at the level of their common
ancestor `Abd Manaf; his birth in the Holy Lan