Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
…history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari. He is known by the honorific epithets Hafiz al-Asr (lit. "Hafiz of the Time"), Shaykh al-Islam ("Shaykh of Islam"), and Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith…