The Onlooker’s Delight : Ghibta al-Nazir Fi Tarjuma Al-Shaykh Abd al-Qadir (the Biography of Al-Shaykh Abd al-Qadir)

Author: Hafiz Ibn Hajar al Asqalani
Publisher: HSBT Publications
Translated by: Mokrane Guezzou
Year: 2016
Pages: 76
Printed: UK
ISBN: 9780956356833
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: New
Weight: 277gr.
Description from the publisher: This new work is the first ever English translation of the classical text Ghabtat al-Nadhir by Shaykh al Islam Hafiz ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, may Allah be pleased with him.

Ghabtatul Nadhir fi Tarjumatil Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir is a concise work about the characteristics as well as the achievements of al-Ghawth al-Adham : Sayyadina al-Shaykh ‘Abd Al-Qadir al-Jilani, may Allah Almighty sanctify his secret, written by the great Hadith scholar Imam Ibn Hajr al-‘Asqalani.

Imam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, He is ‘Abul Fadl Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Ali al-Kannani al-Asqalani, may Allah be pleased with him, better known by the name of Imam Ibn Hajar, was born in Cairo in 773/1372. He began his studies at the age of five and completed the memorisation of the Qur’an by the age of nine. A Shafi’i scholar and hadith master, he studied under renowned scholars in Cairo, Yemen and the Hijaz. Known as ‘Shaykh al-Islam’ scholars travelled from far away lands to take knowledge from him. Appointed to the position of chief-judge several times, he authored more than fifty works on hadith, history, biography, Qur’anic exegesis, poetry and Shafi’i jurisprudence; among the most famous of them is his fourteen-volume commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari called Fath al-Bari. He passed away in Cairo in 852/1449.

Dr. Mokrane Guezzou is a renowned British-Algerian translator of major Islamic works. His translation of Al-Wahidi’s Asbab Al-Nuzul also appears in the Great Commentaries on the Holy Qur’an series. He is also presently at work on a translation and study of Ibn ‘Ata Allah al-Iskandari’s Al-Qasd al-Mujarrad fi Ma’rifat al-Ism al-Mufrad.