Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (852H)

Ahmad ibn Ali Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773-852H)

Al-Imam, Imam al-Aimmah, al-Hafidh al-Kabeer, al-Muarrikh al-Kabeer, Sheykh al-Islam, 'Alam al-A'lam, Emir al-Mumineen fil-Hadith, Hafidh al-'Asr, 'Allamah al-'Ulema, Hujjat al-A'lam.

A very great scholar known and recognized to such an extent that when we use the word "Al-Hafidh" it is to him that we are referring.

Author of the most important sharh of Sahih Bukhari, "Fath al-Bari" & of many books in the Hadith and its sciences.

It is an encyclopedia on its own in 'Ilm al Rijal. Shafii of Madhab.