Al-Ibshitay, Ahmad ibn Isma'il

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Roles: Jurist · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Biqa'i, Ibrahim ibn Umar · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Al-Tanasi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah · Ibn Taghribirdi, Yusuf · Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

JuristTradition

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People and things also explored

The phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's words· The reports from Imam Ahmad· Obedience to those in authority and not rebelling (in the Tahawi creed)· The Hanbali school (madhhab)· Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi· Abdullah ibn Abbas· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Ibshitay, Ahmad ibn Isma'il”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-abshitay-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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The phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's words

The expression "la yanbaghi" ("it is not proper") in Imam Ahmad's words: is it understood as prohibition or as dislike? His companions differed over it, an example of disagreement over the school's wording.