Salah al-Din al-Ala'i
Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-ʿAlāʾī | |
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صلاح الدين العلائي | |
| Title | Shaykh al-Islām Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Al-Ḥāfiẓ |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1295 |
| Died | 1359 (aged 63–64) |
| Resting place | Bab al-Rahma Cemetery |
| Era | Mamluk period |
| Region | Levant |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith sciences, Islamic jurisprudence, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, Tafsir, Islamic theology, History, Genealogy, Arabic grammar, Philology, Arabic literature |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Muslim leader | |
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Abū Saʿīd Khalīl b. Kaykaldī b. ʿAbdallāh al-ʿAlāʾī (Arabic: أبو سعيد خليل بن كيكالدي بن عبد الله العلائي), also known as Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-ʿAlāʾī (Arabic: صلاح الدين العلائي), was a Sunni polymath of the Mamlūk era. He was a distinguished Shāfiʿī jurist, legal theorist, ḥadīth master, historian, genealogist, Qurʾānic exegete, theologian, grammarian, philologist, poet, and man of letters. He was regarded as one of the most eminent ḥadīth scholars of his time, renowned for his profound mastery of isnād (chains of transmission), matn (textual analysis), rijāl (biographical evaluation of transmitters), and ʿilal (hidden defects in transmission).