Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raaji'oon

Sheikh Bakr Abu Zayd Rahimahullah

Last week one of the greatest scholars of hadeeth, passed away: Shiekh Muhammed 'Amr Abdul Lateef of Egypt. Many considered him to be the greatest scholar of hadeeth in the world while he was alive.

And now, news has just reached me that the great scholar, the 'allaamah the faqeeh of the Hanaabilah, the Ibn al Qayyim of our times, Sheikh Bakr Abu Zayd has passed away!!

"Indeed the eyes are full of tears, the heart of full of sadness, but we do not say anything except which pleases our lord"

Many of you have probably seen his name all over this blog and rightly so. In my humble opinion, he was the main authority in Hanbali fiqh and usool in the whole world and had a rare insight into books and that many of us never even heard about.

The salaf used to say: "Whenever I hear the death of a scholar from the sunnah, I feel as though one of my limbs has been ripped off from me."

Ya Allah! Ya Rahmaan! Irham Shaykhana wagfirlahu war hamhu wa 'aafihi wa'fa 'anhu wa akrim nuzulahu wa wassi' mudkhalahu waghsilhu bil maa' ath-thalaj wal barad.

The Janazah of the Sheikh will be held today after Salatul Ishaa'

Insha'allah I will post a short biography of him and some information about his important works soon.

W/salam