Who covered the most disciplines, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī or Al-Farabi?
Al-Farabi Al-Farabi ( ; Persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابي‎ ‎ "Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī ";, known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.
Al-Humaydi Imam al-Humaydi was a hafiz, faqih from Shafi'i jurisprudence scholar and Shaykh of the al-Haram. He studied under Imam Shafi'i himself in his majlis. He also studied and narrated hadith from Sufyan ibn Uyainah and Fudhail ibn Iyadh. His pupils included "Al-Aimah" such as Al-Bukhari, An-Nasa'i, At-Turmudhi, Abu Zur'a al-Razi and Abu Hatim al-Razi. He died in Mecca in 219 AH.