Imam Asy-Shafi'i: Journey of Knowledge from Gaza to Egypt
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Muhammad bin Idris Asy-Syafi'i was born in Gaza in the year 150 Hijriah — the year of the death of Imam Abu Hanifah, as if history was doing serah accept. his father died when he was a child; his poor mother took him to Makkah, the land of his family who had been blessed to the grandfather of the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He recalled the Qur’an in his youth, then recalled the Al-Muwaththa’s book by Imam @0@@ — and at a very young age the teachers in Makkah had allowed him to act. He went to Madinah to go straight to Imam @1@@, read Al-Muwaththa’ in front of him from hafalan until the priest was amazed. Then he recalled the fiqih of the ra’yi from the disciples of Abu Hanifah in Iraq, especially Muhammad bin Al-Hasan Asy-Syaibani. This is the privilege of Shafi’i: he stood at the encounter of two great rivers — the Hadith of Hajj and the Nalar of Iraq — and then mixed it up. From the combination was born his work of Ar-Risalah, the first book that compiled the fiqih ushul: the baku verses about how the law was digged from the Qur’an, Sunnah, ijma, and qiyas. He spent the years in Egypt. With amazing scientific honesty, he reviewed his old fatwas there — then known Qaul Kadim and Qaul Jadid, old and new opinions. His speech was an example of different opinions throughout the ages: "My opinion is right, but may be wrong; opinions other than me are wrong, but may be true." He died in Egypt in 204 hijriah at the age of 54, leaving madzhab who is now followed by hundreds of millions Muslim — including the majority of Muslimin in Indonesia. From Imam Shafi'i we learn that poverty is not a barrier to science, that combining two seemingly contradictory approaches can produce the greatest work, and that the peak of iniquity is just marked by humility to say: I may be wrong.