Al-Qastallani

Ahmad ibn Muhammad Al-Qastallani
Born	851 AH/ 1448 CE
Died	923 AH 8 Muharram 1517 (aged 68–69)
Era	Medieval era
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ash'ari

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.

He was married to 'Aishah al-Ba'uniyyah.

He was a contemporary of Suyuti, and between the two there were several scholarly challenges, Arabic: 'Khusumat'. The subject of the arguments were focused on al-Qastallani's Shaykh al-Sakhawi, but eventually al-Qastallani went to Suyuti to apologize.

Qastallani settled on the Shafi'i school later in life, though he was initially a follower of the Maliki school in jurisprudence. In regard to Islamic theology, Qastallani was a proponent of the Ash'ari school for which he is considered one of the main figureheads.

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