IImam al-Shafi’i: The Worshipping Jurist By Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad

The life of Imam al-Shafi’i. Part 2 in our series on The Four Great Imams. Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’i was perhaps the greatest legal theorist of human history. A pupil of Imam Malik, he strove constantly to root Muslim practice in the blessed ways of the Chosen One, upon him be peace. Thus he was honoured with the title ‘Nasir al-Sunna’, the Supporter of the Sunna.