Muhammad ibn Makki
Muḥammad ibn Makkī | |
|---|---|
| Title | Shams al-Din, al-Shahid al-Awwal |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1334 |
| Died | 7 July 1385 (aged 51) |
| Era | Mamluk Sultanate |
| Region | Jabal Amel, Damascus, Khorasan |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Lum'ah al-Dimashqiyah, al-'Arbaʿun Hadith, The Lessons |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Shia |
| Jurisprudence | Ja'fari |
| Creed | Twelver |
Shams al-Dīn (شَمْس ٱلدِّين) Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Ḥāmid al-Nabaṭī al-ʿĀmilī al-Jizzīnī (c. 1334–1385), better known as al-Shāhīd al-Awwal (Arabic: ٱلشَّهِيد ٱلْأَوَّل, "The First Martyr"), was a 14th century Shia Muslim scholar and jurist from Jezzine in present-day Lebanon. He is famously known as the author of al-Lum'ah al-Dimashqiyah (ٱللُّمْعَة ٱلدِّمَشْقِيَّة) (The Damascene Glitter). Though he is neither the first Muslim nor the first Shia to die for his religion, he's as "Shahid al-Awwal" because he was probably the first Shia scholar of such stature to have been killed in a brutal manner.