passed away on Sunday night, Jumada Al-Awwal 18, 772 AH/9th December 1370 AD, and was buried near the Sufi cemeteries in Cairo. Reception Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani says about him: “He was a skilled jurist, a mentor, a useful and righteous teacher, with righteousness, religion, courtship and humility." Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti said: “The Shafi’i leadership ended with him." Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi said about him: "He worked in the sciences until he became the only one of his time, and the sheikh of the Shafi’is in his time, and he compiled the following useful books, and the students of the Egyptian lands graduated with him, and he was good in form and classification, soft in aspect, and a lot of benevolence." Works Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi was a prolific writer who authored books on various subjects such as jurisprudences, principles of jurisprudences, sciences of the Qu'ran and Arabic language: 'Nihayat Sul fi Sharh Minhaj al-Wusul, an explanation of the approach to accessing the science of usul by Al-Baydawi Sharh al-Minaj al-Fiqh, an explanation of Minhaj al-Talibin by Al-Nawawi The Preface to Investigate the Branches on the Fundamentals “Al-Kawakeb Al-Duriyah, investigating the jurisprudential branches on grammatical rules. 'Tabaqat al-Shafi’i Guidance to the Illusions of Sufficiency Al-Ashabah wa’l-Nazeer “Jawahir al-Bahrain Tariza al-Mahafil Mala’a al-Daqaiq Al-Kawkab al-Durri The Preface” in the graduation of the branches on the principles The Golden Gems in Explanation of the Introductory Welcome The Important Words in Directing the People of the Dhimma Nihaiyat al-Raghib Al-Fatawa Al-Hajwiyyah Taraz Al-Mahafil in the Mysteries of Al-Masaa’il Tadkirat al-Nabih fi Taseh al-Tanbih Explanation of the Incapacity of Ibn Yunus al-Mawsili'' References 1304 births 1370 deaths Asharis Shafi'is Quranic exegesis scholars 14th-century jurists Medieval grammarians of Arabic 14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam