al-Bayhaqī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Khusrawjirdī (384–458/994–1066), renowned Sunni ḥadīth scholar who sought to reconcile the jurisprudence of the Shāfiʿī madhhab and Ashʿarī theological doctrine in line with the Ahl al-Ḥadīth school of thought.

Al-Bayhaqī’s family originated from Shāmakān, near Nīsābūr, but he himself was born at Bayhaq (al-Bayhaqī, ʿAlī, 184). From his early youth he ap…