Muhammad Fuad Abdul Baqi Explained

Muḥammad Fu'ād ʿAbd al-Baqī (Mit Helfa, Qalyub, 1882 – Cairo, 1968) was a prolific Egyptian scholar of Islam, a poet and a translator from French and English.^[1] He wrote and compiled many books related to the Qur'an and the sunnah, including indices which give the reader access to the hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.^[2]

As editor, his 1955 Cairo publication provided the standard topical classification of hadith Arabic text in Sahih Muslim. The work was reprinted manytimes.^[3] Likewise his 1952-53 publication in 2 volumes provides the standard for Sunan ibn Majah.

Books

His works include:

1. Al-Muʿjam al-Mufahras li-Alfāẓ al-Qur'ān al-Karīm, a thorough concordance of the Qur’ān.
2. Jamīʿa Masaned Saheeh Al-Bukhari, Bukhārī’s Classified Hadith.
3. Miftāḥ Kunūz al-Sunnah, 1934, Arabic translation from the English of ARENT JAN WENSINCK's "Handbook of Early Muhammadan Tradition" (Leiden, 1927).
4. Al-Lu'lu wa-al-Marjān, a collection of ahadith from Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
5. A translation of Al-Muʿjam al-Mufahras in the vocabulary of Hadith.

Notes and References

1. http://www.almoajam.org/poet_details.php?id=6753 Reference page in an Egyptian poetry site.
2. http://en.islamstory.com/death-of-mohamed-fuad-abdul-baqi.html Death of Mohamed Fuad Abdul-Baqi
3. Hadith and the Quran, Encyclopedia of the Quran, Brill