Al-Tahawi, Arab imam and scholar (b. 853)
Abu Ja'far Ahmad al-Tahawi (Arabic: أبو جعفر الطحاوي, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (843 – 5 November 933), or simply aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: الطحاوي), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist, hadith scholar and Athari theologian. He studied with al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i jurist, then with Ahmad b. Imran and followed the Hanafi school. He is known for his work al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, a summary of Sunni Islamic creed which influenced Hanafis in Egypt.