Al-Imaam Ash-Shaafi'ee and the Learning Circles of Baghdad

Friday 21-Dec-2018, 6:54PM / 1173

Translation: Kamal Ololade

On the authority of Abu-l-Fadhl az-Zujaaj who said:

"When Shaafi'ee - rahmatullaah alayhi - arrived Baghdad and there were forty something or fifty halaqaat (circles of learning); so when he arrived he was going round sitting in one halqah to the other and telling them:

"Allaah said...and the Prophet said..."

While they would say: "Our comrades (of the same school of thought) said..."

Till there was no halqah left in the masjid except that of Shaafi'ee. 

Taareekh Baghdad (2/68). 

He - may Allaah have mercy on him - once said: 'When you see the tradition of the Prophet - sallallaahu alahyi wa sallam - follow it and do not bother about anyone.' 

Dham al-Kalam  p.393.

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