Editing Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’i (section)

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|Native name=محمد ابن ادریس الشافعی}}'''Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’i''', the jurisprudent, was probably born in Asqalan (Ashkelon) in Palestine. He was a pure Arab on both sides, and on his father’s side he was a third cousin, six times removed, to the Prophet. He grew up in Mecca and northern Arabia and became renowned for his archery and Arabic as well as law. He is said to have studied under Malik ibn Anas in Medina for as long as ten years and later debated with al-Shaybani in Baghdad. He emigrated to Old Cairo about six years before his death there. Accounts vary as to how he died: of an illness; from the after-effects of a beating at the hands of aggrieved adherents of the Maliki school, one of whom he had denounced to the governor for insulting him in the course of a debate; or from a beating by adherents of the Mu’tazili theology.