Al-Sakhawi

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi, born in Cairo, lived from 1428 to 1497 and was a Shafii hadith scholar and historian whose name refers to the Egyptian village of Sakha, where his family originated. A prolific writer skilled in hadith, Quranic exegesis, literature and history, his work also had an anthropological dimension: in Egypt he recorded the marital histories of 500 women, the largest such sample from the Middle Ages, finding that at least a third of women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Bilad al-Sham married more than once, some three times or more, and that as many as three in ten fifteenth century Cairo marriages ended in divorce. His hadith scholarship drew heavily on his teacher Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, and he died in Medina. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/