His Qualities and the Scholars’ Praise of Him
All who knew Shaykh Manṣūr al-Buhūtī—or composed his biography—extolled him. Al-Muḥibbī said:
“He was the foremost Ḥanbalī scholar in Egypt, the last of their authorities there, celebrated far and wide. He was a practicing savant, profoundly versed in the religious sciences, dedicating his time to refining juristic questions. People journeyed to him from distant regions… The task of issuing legal opinions and teaching ultimately rested with him. He was generous, endowed with flowing virtues. Every Thursday night he would prepare a banquet and invite his fellow Jerusalemites; if any of them fell ill, he visited him, brought him to his own home, and nursed him until he recovered. People entrusted him with their charities, which he distributed among his students in the gathering, taking nothing for himself.” (1)

Ibn Ḥumayd al-Najdī said:
“In short, he was the supporter and codifier of the school, the one who consolidated its foundations and set them forth. Reliance is placed upon him therein, and he undertook to clarify what was obscure. May Allah reward him with the best recompense.” (2)

Al-Ghuzzī said:
“He was a formidable imām, a polymath in every science, an erudite jurist, a master of legal theory and Qur’anic exegesis, a mountain among the mountains of knowledge, an unshakeable peak among the peaks of wisdom, an ocean among the oceans of virtue. He held unrivaled mastery in jurisprudence, the laws of inheritance, and much else.” (3)

His Works
Shaykh Manṣūr al-Buhūtī authored several books within the Ḥanbalī school to which Allah granted acceptance; they spread widely and people benefited from them, and they are the works upon which reliance is placed among—