d. 1136/1723–4
Sources
See: Bārtaylī/Fatḥ ash-Shakūr 46; Ibn Aḥmad Sālim/Ibn Twayr 55, 59; Ibn Ḥāmidun/Mawsūʿa: Thaqāfa 262; Ibn Aḥmad Sālim/Ḥawādith 220; MLG 221.
Biography
Teachers: al-Fāḍil b. Abī al-Fāḍil al-Ḥassanī.
Aḥmad Bābu was a renowned expert in fiqh, especially in teaching the widely-studied Mukhtaṣar of Khalīl, according to Bārtaylī/Fatḥ ash-Shakūr. According to Ibn Twayr, he studied this discipline with the celebrated al-Fāḍil b. Abī al-Fāḍil al-Ḥasanī who, himself, had studied with the famous Egyptian …