Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Imam
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Imam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
ابن حجر العسقلاني
	Tomb of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo
Title	Shaykh al-Islam; Hafiz;
Personal
Born	18 February 1372; Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
Died	2 February 1449 (aged 76); Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
Resting place	City of the Dead, Cairo, Egypt
Religion	Islam
Era	Bahri Era; Burji Era;
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ash'ari
Muslim leader
	Influenced Al-Sakhawi ; Zakariyya al-Ansari ; Al-Suyuti;

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (Arabic: ابن حجر العسقلاني; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449 CE / 773 – 852 A.H.), or simply Ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and Shafi'i jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari. He is known by the honorific epithets Hafiz al-Asr (Hafiz of the Time), Shaykh al-Islam (Shaykh of Islam), and Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith (Leader of the Believers in Hadith).

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