Shaykh Tusi

Abu Ja'far al-Tusi
أَبُوْ جَعْفَرِ مُحَمَّدُ بِنْ الحَسَنِ الطُوْسِّيّ
TitleShaykh al-Ta'ifah
Personal life
BornRamadan of 385 Hijri/
995 CE
Tous, Iran
DiedMuharram 22, 460 Hijri/
December 2, 1067 CE
(aged 72)
Najaf, Iraq
EraIslamic golden age
Main interest(s)Kalam, Tafsir, Hadith, Ilm ar-Rijal, Usul and Fiqh
Notable work(s)Tahdhib al-Ahkam, Al-Istibsar, Al-Tibyan
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationShia
JurisprudenceJa'fari
CreedTwelver
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Shaykh Tūsī (Persian: شیخ طوسی), full name Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tūsī (Arabic: أَبُوْ جَعْفَرِ مُحَمَّدُ بِنْ الحَسَنِ الطُوْسِّيّ, romanizedAbū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī), known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah (Arabic: شَيْخِ الطَائِفَةِ, romanized: Shaykh al-Ṭāʾifah) was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, mufassir, theologian and hadith compiler of Persian descent. He is the author of two of the Four Books of Shia hadith; namely, Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar, and is believed to have founded the Hawza of Najaf. In addition, he was a scholar of ʾUṣūl al-Fiqh (Principles of Islamic jurisprudence) and is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential thinkers in Shi’i history.