Al-Qastallani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Al-Qastallani

Islamic scholar

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1447

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1517

Profession: historian, muhaddith, faqih, interpreter, Seerah writers, erudite

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Shihab al-Din Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr al-Qastallani al-Qutaybi al-Shafi'i, also known as Al-Qastallani was a Sunni Islamic scholar who specialized in hadith and theology.
He owed his literary fame mainly to his exhaustive commentary on the Sahih al-Bukhari entitled Irshad al-Sari fi Sharh al-Bukhari.