Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid

Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn

Muhammad ibn al-Nu'man al-'Ukbari al-
Baghdadi, known as al-Shaykh al-Mufid
(Arabic: ‫ )اﻟﺸﯿﺦ اﻟﻤﻔﯿﺪ‬and Ibn al-Mu'allim
(c. 948–1022 CE), was a prominent
Twelver Shia theologian.[1][2] His father
was a teacher (mu'allim), hence the name
Ibn al-Mu'allim. The title "al-Mufid" was
given to him either by Muhammad al-
Mahdi, the twelfth Shia Imam,[3] or by al-
Rummani, a Sunni scholar, after a
conversation with him.[4] The leader of the
Shia community,[5] he was a mutakallim,
theologian, and Shia jurist.
 Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn
Muhammad ibn al-Nu'man
Title al-Shaykh al-Mufid

Personal

Born 948 CE
Ukbara

Died 1022 (aged 73–74)

Religion Islam

Era Islamic golden age

Denomination Shia

Jurisprudence Ja'fari

Creed Twelver

Main interest(s) Kalam, Hadith, Ilm ar-

Rijal, Usul and Fiqh