ʿAlī b. Wahb b. Muṭīʿ b. Abi ’l-Ṭāʿa, commonly known as Ibn Daqiq al-'Id (Arabic: ابن دقيق العيد; 1228–1302), was a Sunni Egyptian scholar.
[10] Ibn Daqiq birth was in Yanbu in the Ḥidjaz (not in Lower Egypt as indicated by Brockelmann) in Shaʿban 625 AH/July 1228 AD and was born into the Arab tribe of Banu Qushayr.
[4][12] He attended several halaqahs in the city of Qus after learning the Quran by heart as a young kid, and his father led him into the Maliki school of jurisprudence.
In order to further pursue his education, he later moved to Cairo and studied under Imam Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam, who was known as the "Sultanul Ulama."
From the latter, he studied the laws and foundations of Shafi'i jurisprudence, and Imam Izz al-Din 'Ibn 'Abd al-Salam mentored him till the day of his death in AH 660 (1262 AD).
After that, he travelled to Damascus to further study Hadith from experts there before eventually making his way back to Egypt and relocating to Qus, the city of his youth.
Soon after, he found himself returning to Cairo and teaching Prophetic traditions at Darul Hadith Al-Kamiliyyah, a school established in A.H. 621 (1224 AD) by Sultan Al-Kamil.
Owing to his proficiency in both Shafi'i and Maliki law schools, he was invited to teach at Madrasah Fadiliyyah, a distinguished establishment that was also housing al-Qurtubi.
In one occasion, he disregarded the testimony of the Sultanate's Secretary, Monkutmar, stating that he was an untrustworthy man in an inheritance lawsuit.
Ibn Daqiq left many works on hadith and the sciences of jurisprudence, which the Arab Library still cherishes to this day.