**Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan ibn Mansur** (Arabic: هبة الله ابن الحسن ابن منصور, romanized: *Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr*; died 1027), commonly known by the *nisba* **al-Lalaka'i** (Arabic: اللالكائي, romanized: *al-Lālakā'ī*), was a Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian. His book, the *Sharh al-Sunna*, is amongst the most renowned Sunni hadith books.

Biography
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Scant information about al-Lalaka'i's biography exists. He was born in Tabaristan and known by the *nisba* *al-Lālakā'ī* ('the cobber'), deriving from the Persian term *lālak* or *lālakā* referring to slippers or a one-sized footwear. It is unknown whether he earned from shoemaking. His *kunya* was *Abū al-Qāsim* while he had two more *nisbas*, *al-Rāzī* and *al-Ṭabarī*.

Al-Lalaka'i initially studied hadith in the city of Rayy, though later shifted to Baghdad, where he studied under Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini, the city's leading scholar of the Shafi'i *fiqh* (jurisprudence). Al-Lalaka'i's creed was likely Ash'arism, as he studied Ash'arite *kalām* with Abu Ishaq. Al-Lalaka'i's teachers include Abu Mas'ud al-Dimashqi, Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini and Isa ibn Ali al-Wazir. He may have studied philosophy with the latter, though it is unlikely. Al-Lalaka'i's notable pupils include al-Bayhaqi and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, the only contemporary source of al-Lalaka'i's biography. While on a visit to Dinawar, al-Lalaka'i died in 1027 (428 AH). His son Abu Bakr al-Lalaka'i became a well-respected hadith scholar.

Al-Lalaka'i's dictionary of the *sahihayn* (the two sahihs i.e. al-Bukhari and Muslim) do not remain extant, so was his *sunan* (collection of legal traditions and opinions). His only surviving work is the renowned *Sharh al-Sunna*. Two other works from al-Lalaka'i exist as manuals in the Zahiriyya Library, Damascus; the *majalis* ('sessions') and the *fawā'id* ('benefits').

Work
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***Sharh Usul I'tiqad Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a***, (Arabic: شرح أصول اعتقاد أهل السنة والجماعة, romanized: *Sharḥ ʾUṣūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jamaʿā*, lit. 'Explaining the principle and belief of the people and community of the Sunna'), commonly known simply as ***Sharh al-Sunna***, is a hadith collection compiled by al-Lalaka'i. Amongst the most prominent books of Sunni Islam, it is the first book in Sunni creed genre to accept al-Bukhari.

The book is known by variant names in several sources such as *al-Sunna*, *Kitab al-Sunna*, *Usul al-Sunna* or the more common *Sharh al-Sunna*. The book stresses the sectarian issues about the Qur'an and the definition of *imān* (faith).

Sources
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* Brown, Jonathan (2007). *The Canonization of Al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon*. Brill. ISBN 978-9004158399.
* Duderija, Adis (2015). *The Sunna and Its Status in Islamic Law: The Search for a Sound Hadith*. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137369925.
* Holtzman, Livnat (2018). *Anthropomorphism in Islam: The Challenge of Traditionalism (700-1350)*. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748689576.
* Holtzman, Livnat (2020). "al-Lālakāʾī, Abū l-Qāsim". Brill – via referenceworks.brillonline.com.

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