Abd al-Salam al-Amir
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Abu Muhammad Abd al-Salam ibn Muhammad al-Amir is a contemporary Saudi scholar, teacher, and preacher based in Buraydah, known for his compilation of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's legal commentary on hadith .
Background and Career
He belongs to the al-Amir family of Buraydah in the Qasim region, whose lineage traces its arrival in Buraydah from Medina . His full lineage in local biographical records is given as Abd al-Salam ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Amir (al-Sa'd) . Alongside his work in education, he has served as a mosque imam and Islamic preacher (da'iyah), and has supervised dedicated Hajj pilgrimage programs for youth .
Scholarly Contribution
Al-Amir is best known for compiling and editing Fath al-Salam Sharh Umdat al-Ahkam (The Opening of Peace: Commentary on the Pillar of Legal Rulings), a legal hadith commentary that he began assembling on 20 Jumada al-Ula 1433 AH . The work systematically extracts and arranges the extensive commentary of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani from Fath al-Bari to directly correspond with the hadiths and chapters of Umdat al-Ahkam by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, supplementing the text with annotations and biographical notes on narrators .
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List of Works
Fath al-Salam Sharh Umdat al-Ahkam min Fath al-Bari is a multi-volume legal hadith commentary completed in 1435 AH / 2014 CE. It systematically extracts, organizes, and annotates the commentary of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani from Fath al-Bari, rearranging it according to the hadiths and legal chapters of Umdat al-Ahkam by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi.