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Al-Maydani
ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ṭālib bin Ḥamāda ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghunaymī al-Dimashqī al-Maydānī was a jurist( faqīh) and legal theorist(uṣūlī) in the Hanafi school as well as a traditionalist(muḥaddith) and grammarian(naḥwī). . Born in 1222 AH in the Maydān neighborhood in southern Damascus, he was known for his vast knowledge and his eagerness to apply it. Just as the neighborhood of his birth still bears this name to this day, he too has become known popularly as al-Maydānī.