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'Abd al-Barr Ibn al-Shihna

عبد البر ابن الشحنة

between 1515 and 1516 CE · 921 AH

Aleppo's qadi, transferred to Cairo's Hanafi bench — one of Sultan al-Ghuri's boon-companions until a poet satirized him for it; 'a lover of learning and learned men'; d. 921 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
judge · Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca

Law and courts

Summary

Chief judge Baha al-Din Abd al-Barr ibn Baha al-Din Ibn al-Shihna al-Hanafi al-Halabi. He held the judgeship of Aleppo, and was then moved to the Hanafi judgeship of Cairo 1.

He was among the companions and the wits of the sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri, to the point that some poets mocked him in verse. He loved learning and scholars 1.

He died in the year 921 1.

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Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 470
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People

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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

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