Imam al-Sakhawi was a major Egyptian Shafi'i hadith scholar and biographer, a student-environment inheritor of Ibn Hajar's Damascus circle. He wrote on narrator criticism and the virtues of good innovations in devotional life where they align with the Sunna.
He appears in lists of scholars who accepted sound forms of mawlid.
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Classical scholarship on the Prophet's birth commemoration.