Biography on imam al shafi

Imam Shafi was born in 150 Hijri (769 AD), the year when the great Imam Abu Hanifa passed away. Imam Shafi did not meet Imam Abu Hanifa but he met two other great Imamas within Sunni Islam – Imam Malik and Imam Hanbal – and it was not merely just knowing each other in passing.

Imam Shafi was in fact a direct student of Imam Malik for a long time. On the other hand, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal was also a direct student of Imam Shafi.

Biography on imam al shafi

Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal commented that were it not for Imam Shafi, he himself would have remained uneducated in the field of Fiqhul Hadith. Now let us go through the amazing life of this great scholar called Imam Shafi.

The name of Imam Shafi was Mohammad ibn Idris ibn Abbas ibn Uthman ibn Shafi.

He was a Quraishi and his ancestors are from the tribe of Abd Manaf. His great-great-great-grandfather (3rd grand-father) and his father (4th grand-father) were companions of the Prophet. His 4th grandfather Sa