By Sidi Abu Hasan Edited by IlmGate Imām Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Razzāq al-Husayni al-Zabīdī, Abu’l Fayđ and is widely known as Murtađā az-Zabīdi. (1145-1205 AH/ 1732-1790 CE) He was a Hanafī scholar, lexicographer, linguist, a grandmaster in hadīth, genealogy, biographies and personal histories (hadith, ansāb, rijāl). He was a prolific writer. Apart from Arabic, he was proficient in Turkish, Persian and a language of Karaj. Originally from Wāsiţ in Iraq, he was born in Belgram in India and migrated to Zabīd in Yemen; hence his title, “al-Zabīdī.” He traveled to Hijāz (Jeddah, Makkah and Madinah) and…