Mu’min b. al-Hasan al-Shablanji al-Shafi’i is from the village, al-Shablanja, in Egypt. He was born around 1250/1834. After learning the Holy Qur’an from his father, he went to al-Azhar University and studied with scholars there. al-Shablanji was a well-known Sunni scholar in the early 14th/19th century.