Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Muhammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi was a renowned Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

 Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

 Mufassir, hadith

Hadith

The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....

 scholar and a Shafi`i faqih

Faqih

A Faqīh is an expert in fiqh, or, Islamic jurisprudence.A faqih is an expert in Islamic Law, and, as such, the word Faqih can literally be generally translated as Jurist.- The definition of Fiqh and its relation to the Faqih:...

 best known for his major work Tafsir al-Baghawi

Tafsir al-Baghawi

Tafsir al-Baghawi , also known as Ma'alim at-Tanzeel is a classical Sunni tafsir by Husain bin Masood al-Baghawi d. 1122, written as an abridgement of Tafsir al-Tha'labi . It currently exists in four volumes and eight volumes in its Lebanon edition and Cairo edition respectively....

. Al-Farra was in reference to trading with fur, and al-Baghawi was a reference to his hometown Bagh or Baghshûr (then in Persia) between Herat

Herat

Herāt is the capital of Herat province in Afghanistan. It is the third largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 397,456 as of 2006. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan...

 and Marw ar-Rud. He died in Marw ar-Rud.

He is also famous for his other works on hadith such as Sharḥ al-sunnah and Masabih al-Sunnah

Masabih al-Sunnah

Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionist...

, the latter became famous as Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih is an expanded version of by Al-Baghawi's Masabih al-Sunnah by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Khatib Al-Tabrizi. Khatib Al-Tabrizi d. 741H rendered this version of the original text more accessible to those not having an advanced knowledge of the science of hadith...

 with the additions of al-Tabrizi (d. 741H). He was a student of al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Marwa al-Rudi.

Works

• Tafsīr al-Baghawī : al-musammá : maʻālim al-tanzīl
  Tafsir al-Baghawi
  Tafsir al-Baghawi , also known as Ma'alim at-Tanzeel is a classical Sunni tafsir by Husain bin Masood al-Baghawi d. 1122, written as an abridgement of Tafsir al-Tha'labi . It currently exists in four volumes and eight volumes in its Lebanon edition and Cairo edition respectively....
  
   (تفسير البغوي : المسمى : معالم التنزيل)
• Al-Tahdhīb fī fiqh al-imām al-Shāfiʻī (التهذيب في فقه الإمام الشافعي)
• Sharḥ al-sunnah (شرح السنة)
• Masabih al-Sunnah
  Masabih al-Sunnah
  Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionist...
  
  (مصابيح السنة)
• Al-Anwār fī shamāʼil al-Nabī al-Mukhtār (الأنوار في شمائل النبي المختار )
• Al-Jamʻ bayna al-Ṣaḥīḥayn (الجمع بين الصحيحين)
• Al-Arbaʻīn ḥadīthan (الأربعين حديثاً)
• Majmūʻah min al-fatāwā (مجموعة من الفتاوى)