Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Summary
Ahmad ibn Hazim, Abu al-Qasim al-Saffar al-Balkhi, a great Hanafi jurist to whom people travelled in Balkh. 1
Works
He said that he differed from Abu Hanifa on a thousand questions, and that the fatwa of his day followed his view on them. He died in 326 AH, or 336 by another report. 1
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.2054
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