Imaamu Shaafici (Carabi محمد بن إدريس الشافعي) waa Muxamed (Abuu Cabdullaahi) bin Idriis binil-Cabbaas bin Cusmaan bin Shaafici bini-Saa'ib bin Cubayd bin Cabdi-Yaziid bin Haashim binil-Muddalib bin Cabdi-Manaaf. Al-Muddalib wuxuu dhashay 150h/766m wuxuuna geeriyooday 204h/820m, Al-Shafi’i Al-Shafi’i (AH 150–208/767–820 CE) is one of the eponyms of four great Sunni schools of law. He is also the author of several prominent works in the field. He is also known as Imam al-Shafi‘i. Abu Abdallah Muḥammad b. İdris b. al-Abbas b. Uthman b. Shafi b. al-Saʾib b. Ubayd b. Abd Yazid b. Hashim b. al-Muṭṭalib b. Abd Manaf b. Ḳuṣayy al-Ḳurashi Al-Shafi’i was of a Muttalibi leanage through his father, and thus a distant relative of the Prophet. He was born in Gaza, (in contemporary Palestine) in 150 AH / 767 CE, the year of Abu Hanifa’s death. Following the death of his father, so as not to remain alone, his mother decided to migrate with Al-Shafi’i to Mecca where their relatives lived.