Mulla Ali al-Qari ملا علي القاري

Nur al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Harawi al-Qari (d. 1014 AH / 1606 CE), commonly known as Mulla Ali al-Qari, was a Hanafi scholar and polymath counted among the foremost hadith masters of the eleventh Islamic century. Born in Herat, in present-day Afghanistan, he received his early education there before traveling to Makka, where he studied with leading teachers of the Two Sanctuaries, including Ibn Hajar al-Haytami. He chose to remain in Makka, teaching, writing, and reportedly earning his living by transcribing Qurʾans in his fine hand. His mastery of Qurʾanic recitation earned him the title al-Qari, and he died and was buried in the holy city. A Hanafi in law and Maturidi in creed, he wrote on hadith, fiqh, tafsir, recitation, history, and Sufism, leaving well over one hundred works. His masterpiece is Mirqat al-Mafatih, an expansive commentary on al-Tibrizi's Mishkat al-Masabih that remains a standard reference. In hadith criticism he is known for al-Asrar al-Marfuʿa fi al-Akhbar al-Mawduʿa, a study of fabricated reports, and for his commentary on Abu Hanifa's al-Fiqh al-Akbar. Among his most widely loved works is al-Hizb al-Aʿzam, a daily litany of Qurʾanic verses and prophetic supplications, alongside several Arbaʿun (forty-hadith) collections still read and translated today.