was an Egyptian cleric, author and Islamic scholar who was reportedly the first Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo.
[1][2][3] Al-Kharshi is considered to be a leading Muslim scholar, well known in his time throughout the Arab World and into other Islamic kingdoms in Africa.
Al-Kharshi studied the sciences of Al-Azhar established at that time, such as: interpretation, hadith, monotheism, mysticism, jurisprudence, theology, grammar, morphology, presentations, meanings and statement, badi’, literature, history, and the Prophet’s biography, and also studied the sciences of Logic, setting and the times.
Ali Al-Sa’idi Al-Adawi Al-Maliki said about him in his footnote, which he put on his small explanation of Matn Khalil: He is the scholar, the imam and the archetypal role model, the sheikh of the Malikis in the east and the west, the role model for those who walk, foreign and Arab, the educator of the devotees, the cave of the walkers, Sidi Abu Abdullah bin Ali Al-Kharshi.He says about him from the tenth of his tenth: We did not catch an hour in which he was oblivious to the interests of his religion or his world, and if he entered his house, he used to turban with a white woolen scarf, and he did not get bored in his lesson from asking a question, it is necessary to read, especially after his Sheikh Al-Burhan Al-Laqani, and Abu Al-Diya’ Ali Al-Ajhouri.Al-Kharshi used to divide the text of Khalil in the Maliki jurisprudence into two halves: Al-Jabarti said about Al-Kharshi:He is the eminent scholar, the sheikh of Islam and Muslims and the inheritor of the sciences of the master of the messengers.
Al-Kharshi died on Sunday the 27th day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the year (1101 AH – 1690 AD) at age 93.