The book which won al-Qastallani his fame

Qastallani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-. Irshad al-sari li-sharh Sahih al-Bukhari.

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The most acclaimed commentary on the famous hadith collection "Sahih al-Bukhari", itself considered second only to the Qur'an by many Sunni Muslims. Al-Qastallani (1448-1517) completed this monumental work in ten volumes, the fourth of which is preserved here. Al-Qastallani was a Sunni scholar who wrote on both hadith and jurisprudence and was a leading voice of one of the most impressive intellectual milieus of the late medieval period. He was a contemporary of the indominable Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (ca. 1445-1505 CE), and the two men reputedly had several philosophical disagreements. Al-Suyuti and al-Qastallani shared their school of Sunni theology, the Ash'ari, of which al-Qastallani was considered a notable proponent. However, they were at first aligned with different schools of thought regarding Muslim jurisprudence, with al-Qastallani initially of the Maliki school and al-Suyuti firmly of the Shafi'i. In the end, it was al-Qastallani who ceded ground to his respected peer, and later in life aligned himself with both the Shafi'i school and with al-Suyuti's interpretation of one of their major disputes.

This volume, spanning nearly 500 folios, exemplifies the depth and breadth of al-Qastallani's abilities, and of the intellectual traditions from which he came.