Zayn al-Din al-Maabari
- Died
- 987 AH
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Zayn al-Din al-Ma'bari (d. 987 AH / 1579 CE) was an Indian jurist of the Shafi'i school from Malabar, best known as the author of the legal work Fath al-Mu'in .
Background and Education
His full lineage is Zayn al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Zayn al-Din ibn Ali ibn Ahmad al-Ma'bari al-Malibari . He belonged to an established scholarly family in Malabar; his grandfather, Zayn al-Din ibn Ali (872–928 AH / 1467–1522 CE), was a Shafi'i jurist born in Cochin who taught in Ponnani .
Al-Ma'bari traveled to the Hijaz to further his education, studying in Mecca under the Shafi'i authority Ibn Hajar al-Haytami .
Scholarly Standing
Al-Ma'bari attained prominence among late Shafi'i scholars . He composed a concise legal manual entitled Qurrat al-'Ayn bi-Muhimmat al-Din, and subsequently completed an extensive commentary upon it, Fath al-Mu'in bi-Sharh Qurrat al-'Ayn, finished in 982 AH (1574 CE) . He also authored Irshad al-'Ibad ila Sabil al-Rashad, a treatise dedicated to pious exhortation and spiritual counsel .
His legal commentary achieved broad reception and became the subject of later glosses, most notably the nineteenth-century supercommentary I'anat al-Talibin by Abu Bakr Shatta al-Dimyati .
Death
Al-Ma'bari died in 987 AH (1579 CE) .
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List of Works
al-Isti'dad lil-Mawt wa Sual al-Qabr (Preparation for Death and the Questioning of the Grave) is an Islamic eschatological and hortatory treatise. It addresses spiritual preparedness for mortality, the stages of dying, the events surrounding departure from worldly life, and the subsequent questioning by the two angels in the grave.
Fath al-Muin bi Sharh Qurrat al-Ayn bi Muhimmat al-Din (The Victory of the Helper in Explaining the Joy of the Eye with the Essentials of Religion) is a late Shafi'i legal commentary on the primer Qurrat al-Ayn bi Muhimmat al-Din. Completed in 982 AH (1574 CE), the text unpacks the concise phrasing of the original primer, elucidates its legal objectives, and provides essential details and supplementary legal rulings across the traditional branches of Islamic substantive law.