Al-Qarafi (684H)

Shihab ad-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi (626-684H)

Ash-Sheykh, al-Imam, al-'Alim, al-Faqih, al-Usooli, al-Hafidh, al-Bahr. Great scholar of Fiqh Maliki and great student of Imam al-'Izz ibn 'Abdes-Salam.

In his time, Shafi'ites and Malikites were unanimous that the best scholars in Egypt were three in number: al-Qarafi in "ancient Egypt", Nasir ad-Din ibn Munir in Alexandria and Ibn Daqiq al-'Id in Cairo.