Al-Kamal Ibn al-Humam
Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (Arabic: الكمال بن الهمام) was a prominent Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi. Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir (Qur’anic exegesis), Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance (in Arabic, known as ‘ilm al-fara’id, or ‘the science of [ancestral] shares’), mathematics, and music.
He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.
