Draft:Muhammad al-Ameen ash-Shinqeeti

Muhammad al-Ameen ash-Shinqeeti
محمد الأمين الشنقيطي
Personal life
Born	17 February 1905 Tanbah, Mauritania
Died	10 January 1974(1974-01-10) (aged 68) Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Nationality	Mauritanian, Saudi
Main interest(s)	Fiqh, Islamic law
Occupation	Islamic Scholar professor author
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Institute	Islamic University of Madinah (professor)
Jurisprudence	Maliki
Creed	Athari
Muslim leader
Influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di, Ibn Muflih, Shaykh Muhammad Bin Sālih, Shaykh Ahmad Bin Mood
Influenced Saleh Al-Fawzan, Shaykh Abdur Razzaq al Badr, Assim Al-Hakeem, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymin, Salafi Movement

Muhammad al-Ameen ash-Shinqeeti (Arabic: محمد الأمين الشنقيطي, Romanized: Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shinqīṭī; 17 February 1905 – 10 January 1974) was a Mauritanian islamic scholar, a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars and a member of Muslim World League.:

Biography

Ash-Shinqeeti (full name: Muḥammad al-Amīn ibn Muḥammad al-Mukhtār ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn Nūḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Mukhtār al-Jakanī al-Shinqīṭī) was born on 17 February 1905. He was born into the Jakani tribe in the city of Tanbah in Chinguetti district, Mauritania. He grew up as an orphan raised, in a very educated family, by his maternal uncles. It is in their homes where he learned the Holy Quran, the Prophet's biography, Arabic literature and Islamic history. By the age of 10 he finished the memorization of the Holy Quran. He proceeded to learn the Maliki fiqh at the hands of shaykh Muhammad bin Saleh. He continued to study under various scholars in Mauritania, mostly from the Jakani tribe, and achieved various ijazaat and academic degrees. He was known for his intellegence, dillegence and prestige. After his studies he became a well respected scholar in Mauritania. He served as a judge in family jurisdiction and several of his rulings were put to practise by the rulers at that time. In the year 1947 (1365 AH) he went to Saudi Arabia to peform Hajj in the holy city of Mecca. It was at this time that he was granted the Saudi citizenship by the then ruling monarch Abdulaziz Al Saud. He started to teach at Dar al 'Uloom in Medina in the year 1951 (1369 AH). In 1953 (1371 AH) he relocated to Riyadh where he became a teacher at the Scientific Institute and the Colleges of Sharia and Arabic Language. Meanwhile he worked as a member and co-founder of the Muslim World League and he became one of the first teachers at Islamic University of Madinah in the year 1961 (1381 AH). He was eventually appointed as a member of the university counsil and 1971 (1391 AH) he became a member of Council of Senior Scholars.

His teachers

His teachers were many, the most important ones being:

• Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ
• Shaykh Aḥmad alʼfrm ibn Muḥammad al-Mukhtār al-Jakanī.
• Shaykh Muḥammad ibn al-Niʻmah ibn Zaydān
• Shaykh Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar
• Shaykh Aḥmad Fāl ibn ādw al-Jakanī.
• Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Mūd al-Jakanī

His students

The shaykh had many students in both Saudi Arabia and Mauritania and even untill this day on many students of knowledge benefit from his books. Several prominent scholars that studied under him are:

• Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-Uthaymin
• Shaykh Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz
• Shaykh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak
• Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
• Shaykh Saad bin Muhammad Al-Shuqairan
• Shaykh Hamoud bin Aqlaa Al-Shuaibi
• Shaykh Hammad al Ansari

Other students include Ahmad Shakir and Thana Allah Al-Madani.

His works

Some of his works include

• Adwaa-ul-Bayān fee Tafseer-il-Qur'an bil-Qur'an [This is his tremendous voluminous work on Tafseer of the Qu'raan]
• Al-Mudhakkirah fee Usool-il-Fiqh  [A small treatise on the Principles of Fiqh]
• Adab Al-Bahth wal-Munādhara  [Etiquettes for Researching]
• Alfiyyah fil-Mantiq Daf'u Īhām Al-Idhtirāb 'an Āyāt-il-Kitāb
• Man'u Jawāz Al-Majāz
• Mandhūmah fil-Farā'idh [A Book on the Laws of Inheritance]
• Furū' Mālik – a poetic text
• Sharh 'alā Marāqee As-Sa'ūd – a dictation he made to his students
• Sharh 'alā As-Sullam – a dictation he made to his students
• Ansāb-ul-'Arab – a poetic text
• Manāhij wa Dirāsāt li-Āyāt-il-Asmā was-Sifāt – a transcribed lecture he gave in the Islaamic University of Madinah in 1962 (on the 13th of Ramadān, 1382 A.H).

His death

He died in Mecca after performing Hajj on 10 January 1974, corresponding to Dhu al-Hijja 17, 1393 AH at the age of 68. Funeral prayer was held for him in Masjid al-Haram in Mecca just after dhuhr prayers as well as an absentee funeral prayer being performed for him in the Prophet's Mosque in Medinah. He was burried in Jannat al-Mu'alla.