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He is known chiefly for two works on supplication and on the pauses of Quranic recitation, and for his long service as imam of the Salih Mosque in Cairo[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Identity | Abu al-Fath Taqi al-Din Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ali b. Humam al-Misri, qira'at and hadith scholar[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) |\n| Dates | Born Cairo 682 AH (1283 CE); died 15 Rabi' al-Awwal 745 (27 July 1344)[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) |\n| Bynames | Called Ibn al-Imam because his grandfather and father were imam and khatib of the Salih Mosque[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) |\n| Post | Imam of the Salih Mosque, Cairo, from 713/1313 until his death; buried in the Qarafa cemetery[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) |\n| Main work | *Silah al-Mu'min fi'l-du'a wa'l-dhikr*, hadith on supplication and remembrance in 21 chapters; edited Damascus 1414/1993[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) |\n| Second work | *'Alam al-ihtida fi'l-waqf wa'l-ibtida'*, on pausing and beginning in Quran recitation; one manuscript known, in Kütahya[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) |\n| Madhhab | Described as a Shafi'i faqih by the TDV encyclopedia; a Hanafi attribution found on one digital library page conflicts with this[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam) • [2](https://islamic.app/library/authors/ibn-muhammad-taqi-din-ibn-imam-745h) |\n\n## Identity and names\n\nThe biographical record identifies him as Ebü'l-Feth Takıyyüddîn Muhammed b. Muhammed b. Alî b. Hümâm el-Mısrî, a scholar of qira'at and hadith who died in 745/1344[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam). He was born in Cairo in 682 AH (1283 CE). Some sources give 677 (1278) or 688 (1289), but the TDV encyclopedia holds that the date recorded by Ibn al-Jazari, who took his information from the subject's son Muhibb al-Din Ibrahim, is the correct one[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\nThe byname Ibn al-Imam (\"son of the imam\") came from his family's post: his grandfather Nur al-Din Ali and his father Taj al-Din Muhammad served as imam and khatib of the Salih Mosque in Cairo, built by the Fatimid vizier al-Malik al-Salih[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\n## Life, teachers, and posts in Cairo\n\nThe TDV article describes him as a Shafi'i faqih as well as a qira'at and hadith scholar, among the leading figures of Cairo[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam). After his father's death in 713/1313 he took over the imamate of the Salih Mosque and held it for the rest of his life. He died on 15 Rabi' al-Awwal 745 (27 July 1344) in Cairo and was buried in the Qarafa cemetery[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\nHis teachers were Cairo scholars of the period: he read qira'at with the Al-Azhar teacher Ali b. Yusuf al-Shattanufi, heard hadith from [Abd al-Mu'min](https://www.edgepedia.org/abd-al-mumin) b. Khalaf al-Dimyati and received an ijaza (license) from him, and studied with Ali Ibn al-Sawwaf and, in fiqh, with Shihab al-Muhsini; he also read the *Sira of Ibn Hisham* with Ahmad b. Ishaq al-Aberkuhi[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\nTwo assessments survive. Al-Dhahabi called him a thiqa (trustworthy) and God-fearing scholar, while Ibn al-Jazari reported that he had no knowledge of Ibn al-Imam ever teaching qira'at, despite the subject's reputation in that field[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\n## Works, manuscripts, and reception\n\n**Silah al-Mu'min fi'l-du'a wa'l-dhikr** (\"The weapon of the believer: supplication and remembrance\") is his main work. It compiles hadiths on supplication and remembrance drawn from the Kutub al-Sitta, Malik's *al-Muwatta'*, al-Hakim's *al-Mustadrak*, Abu Awana's *al-Musnad al-mustakhraj*, [Ibn Hibban](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-hibban)'s *Sahih*, Ibn Abi Shayba's *al-Musannaf*, and al-Bayhaqi's *al-Sunan al-kubra*, arranged in twenty-one chapters. It was critically edited by Muhyiddin Dib Mustu and published in Damascus in 1414/1993[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam). The Alreq manuscript database records 20 manuscripts and 20 entries for the work, categorized under dhikr and Islamic rituals[3](https://app.alreq.com/en/Authors/Author/2c15fa88-1a73-483a-04e9-08d7902f2e13).\n\nThe work was received through abridgment. Al-Dhahabi made a twelve-chapter abridgement, *Muhtasar Silah al-Mu'min*, which survives in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library (III. Ahmed, nr. 572); the TDV article concludes from Dhahabi's preface that the abridgement was made after the author's death[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam). Further abridgments were made by al-Nasa'i al-Saghir (d. 757/1356) and al-Uryani (d. 778/1376), and Ibn Hilal al-Maqdisi combined selections from it with al-Nawawi's *al-Adhkar* in his *al-Misbah fi'l-jam' bayn al-Adhkar wa'l-Silah*[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\n**'Alam al-ihtida fi'l-waqf wa'l-ibtida'** concerns the places of pausing and beginning in Quranic recitation. Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qalawun had it reviewed through the philologist Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi, who judged it the finest work in its field. One manuscript survives, in the Tavşanlı Zeytinoğlu Halk Kütüphanesi in Kütahya (nr. 22, ff. 10a–20a)[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\nA third work, *Muteshabih al-Qur'an*, is attested only by mentions in sources; no manuscript has been located[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam).\n\n## By the numbers: a thin and tangled record\n\nThe documented output is small: two securely attributed works, one of which survives in a single located manuscript, and one printed edition, from 1993[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam). Against this, the Alreq database counts 20 manuscripts of *Silah al-Mu'min*[3](https://app.alreq.com/en/Authors/Author/2c15fa88-1a73-483a-04e9-08d7902f2e13).\n\nThe record is also tangled by name confusion. A digital library page describes \"Ibn Muhammad Taqi Din Ibn Imam (d. 745H)\" as a Hanafi scholar celebrated for jurisprudence, including a commentary on *al-Hidayah*, and places him among the Mutaakhirun of 601–1000 AH[2](https://islamic.app/library/authors/ibn-muhammad-taqi-din-ibn-imam-745h). This conflicts with the TDV encyclopedia, which describes a Shafi'i faqih whose known works are on hadith and recitation[1](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam). A likely source of the confusion is Kamal al-Din [Ibn al-Humam](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-al-humam), a different and later figure: born in 788 or 789 AH to the Hanafi chief qadi of Alexandria, shaykh of the khanqah Shaykhu from 847 AH, dead in Cairo on 7 Ramadan 861 AH, and author of a commentary on *al-Hidaya* in fiqh[4](https://ihodp.ugent.be/mpp/informationObject-10675). The similarity of \"ibn Humam\" and \"Ibn al-Imam\" makes a conflation between the two plausible, though the digital page itself does not name Ibn al-Humam.\n\nFor context, the Mamluk Hanafi milieu was large and largely immigrant: around eighty works on usul (legal methodology) were written by Mamluk Hanafis, and the prominent Hanafis of the 7th and 8th centuries overwhelmingly came to Mamluk lands from Central Asia and Anatolia[5](https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/iuislamtd/article/1025290). Ibn al-Imam, a Cairo-born Shafi'i by the TDV account, sits outside that Hanafi production, which is one more reason the Hanafi attribution on the digital page stands out as anomalous.\n\n## References\n\n1. [İbnü'l-İmâm, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibnul-imam)\n2. [Ibn Muhammad Taqi Din Ibn Imam (d. 745H), islamic.app library](https://islamic.app/library/authors/ibn-muhammad-taqi-din-ibn-imam-745h)\n3. [Alreq Dashboard: Ibn al-Imam author record](https://app.alreq.com/en/Authors/Author/2c15fa88-1a73-483a-04e9-08d7902f2e13)\n4. [Ibn Taghri Birdi, al-Manhal 10, Mamluk Prosopography, Ghent University](https://ihodp.ugent.be/mpp/informationObject-10675)\n5. 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