Taqi al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam al-Numeiri al-Harrani (661 AH - 728 AH / 1263 AD - 1328 AD), better known as Ibn Taymiyyah. He is a jurist, hadith, commentator, and scholar of a diligent Muslim from among the scholars of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama`ah. He is one of the most prominent Muslim scholars during the second half of the seventh century and the first third of the eighth century AH. Ibn Taymiyyah Hanbali grew up taking the Hanbali jurisprudence and its origins from his father and grandfather, as he was one of the diligent imams in the doctrine.