Muhammad al-Muzaffari
- Died
- 649 AH
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Muhammad al-Muzaffari (d. after 649 AH / 1251 CE) was a Shafi'i scholar and hadith specialist, best known for compiling a concise selection from the Prophetic biography of Ibn Hisham titled Juz' fihi muntaqa min Sirat Ibn Hisham.
Identity and Scholarship
His full name is given as Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Muzaffari al-Shafi'i, with the nisba al-Jawri or al-Jazari, and the title Shams al-Din. He was described as a jurist, poet, and man of letters who engaged extensively in the study of hadith.
Al-Muzaffari composed al-Mukhtara' fi al-radd 'ala ahl al-bida' (The Contrived Defense in Refutation of the People of Innovation), a theological treatise concerning the status of the Prophet's Companions, which he completed in 649 AH. His Juz' fihi muntaqa min Sirat Ibn Hisham presents an abridged extraction of reports directly originating from Ibn Ishaq through Ibn Hisham's recension of the Sira.
Biographical sources place his death after 649 AH (1251 CE), while another record places it in 660 AH (1262 CE).
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List of Works
Juz fihi Muntaqa min Sirat Ibn Hisham is a concise compilation of Prophetic biography. It presents an abridged selection excerpted from the Sira of Ibn Hisham, which is itself based on the earlier biographical work of Ibn Ishaq, drawing all of its hadith reports and historical narrations directly from those source materials.