Ash-Shaykh Mansur ibn Yunus Al-Bahuti Al-Hanbali

His name and title: He is Ash-Shaykhul Islām Mansūr ibn Yūnus ibn Salāh Ad-Dīn ibn Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Idrīs Al-Bahūti. Bahūti is ascription to a small town in Egypt called Buhūt.Birth And Life: According to Imām Al-Ghazzī he was born in the year 1000 A.H. However, there is not certainty upon this. Imām Al-Amīn Al Muhabbi in his Tārīkh stated, “[He was] the Shaykh of the Hanābilah in Masr (Egypt).”More… He continues,

“He was an ‘Alim, implementing [the knowledge], God-fearing, well versed in the Islamic sciences, who spent his time in writing about the issues of fiqh. The people from far away places came to take the Madh-hab of Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal (radhiya Allahu ‘Anhu) from him. For he was matchless within his time in fiqh. Many of the later scholars from the companions of the Hanābilah took knowledge from him. From them was Al-Jamāl Yūsuf Al Bahūti, Abdur-Rahmān Al-Bahūti, Muhammad Shāmi Al-Mardawī. Shaykh Ash-Shams Muhammad As-Safārīnī stated that his major students were, “Abdul Bāqi Ad-Dimashqī, Muhammad Al Khulūtī, Yāsīn Al Lubdi, Abdul Haqq Al-Lubdi, Yusūf Al Karmī and others.”

His most famous masterpiece authored is Rawdh Al Murabbi’ Sharh Zād Al Mustaqni’. He also wrote other commentaries such as Sharh Al Muntahā, Hāshiyah Al-’Iqna’, and book entitled ‘Umdah fil Fiqh.

Death: He died at the time of Dhuhā on Friday in the year 1051 A.H. May Allah accept him amongst the ‘Ulamā’ and bless him with eternal paradise.