Al-Qastallani

Shihāb al-Dīn Abu'l-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī al-Qutaybī al-Shāfi‘ī (أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي بكر ابن عبد الملك بن أحمد بن حسين بن علي القسطلاني المصري الشافعي), also known as  Al-Qasṭallānī 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 Irshād al-Sarī fī Sharḥ al-Bukhārī.

Life
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-Qasṭallānī's Shaykh al-Sakhawi, but eventually al-Qasṭallānī went to Suyuti to apologize.

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

Works

 * Al-Muwahib al-Ladunniyyah bi al-Minah al-Muhammadiyya
 * Irshad al-Sari, 10 vol, one of the best commentaries on Sahih Bukhari
 * Masālik al-Ḥunafā’ ilā Mashāri‘ al-Ṣalāt 'alā al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafā
 * Minhaj al-Ibtihāj Sharḥ Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj, a commentary on Sahih Muslim
 * al-Jannāt al-Dānī fī Ḥall Ḥirz al-Amānī, a commentary on the Shatibiyyah
 * al-Fatḥ al-Mawāhibī, a biography of the author of Shatibiyyah
 * A commentary on the Burda
 * Maqamat al-‘Ārifīn