Dan Hajar al-'Asqalani, ko Ibn Hajar ( Arabic , cikakken suna: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū 'l-Faḍl Aḥmad dan Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī dan Muḥammad dan Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī ) (18 Fabrairu 1372 - 2 Fabrairu 1449 [852 AH]), ya kasance masanin ilimin Musulunci na zamani. "wanda aikinsa ya kasance shine hadaddin karshe na kimiyyar Hadith ." Ya wallafa wasu ayyuka 150 a cikin hadisi, tarihi, tarihin, tafsiri, waƙoƙi, da kuma hukunce-hukuncen Shafi'ite, wadanda suka fi daraja wadanda kasancewarsa sharhin Sahih Bukhari ne, mai taken Fath al-Bari . An haife shi a Alkahira a 1372, ɗan malamin Shafi'i kuma mawaƙi Nur al-Din 'Ali. Iyayensa biyu sun mutu tun yana karami, kuma shi da 'yar uwarsa, Sitt al-Rakb, sun zama sanannun mahaifin matar mahaifinsa na farko, Zaki al-Din al-Kharrubi, wanda ya yi wa Ibn Hajar karatun Alqurani tun yana dan shekara biyar. . A nan ne ya yi fice, yana koyon karatun Suratul Maryam a rana guda tare da haddace Alqur’ani gab da shekara 9.