عبد العزيز بن يحيى الكناني

عبد العزيز بن يحيى الكناني

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Abd al-Aziz ibn Yahya al-Kinani al-Makki, the theologian who debated Bishr al-Marisi before al-Ma'mun on denying that the Qur'an was created. 1

Dawud ibn Ali said that he was one of the companions of al-Shafi'i: he studied with him, kept his company for a long time, and went with him to Yemen. 1

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Studied under
محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

People and things also explored

The Shafi'i school (madhhab)· Muwatta 77· Muwatta 88· Muwatta 540· Muwatta 584· Muwatta 587· Muwatta 615· Muwatta 629

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi), p.54
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Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
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The Shafi'i school (madhhab)

al-Shafi'i's school — second widest in ra'y after the Hanafis, famous for rejecting istihsan: 'whoever exercises istihsan has legislated'.