al-Baghdadi Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jabir

البغدادي أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن جابر

850 CE · 235 AH – 922 CE · 310 AH

Major scholar of the Zahiri legal school, which traces to Dawud ibn Ali al-Isfahani; wrote on the differences among jurists; died 310 AH (922 CE).

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman · Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali · Ibn Khuzayma, Muhammad ibn Ishaq · أبو بكر النيسابوري عبد الله بن محمد بن زياد

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موجز

أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن جابر البغدادي عالم كبير من علماء المذهب الظاهري، الذي ينسب إلى داود بن علي الأصبهاني. كتب في اختلاف الفقهاء. تذكر الموسوعة مولده سنة 235هـ ووفاته سنة 310هـ (922م). 1

People and things also explored

العواصم· The phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's words· المظالم· نكاح المتعة· The reports from Imam Ahmad· Obedience to those in authority and not rebelling (in the Tahawi creed)· The Hanafi school (madhhab)· The Hanbali school (madhhab)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.613-614
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العواصم

al-Awasim — al-Rashid's self-governing frontier district 'that shields the borders', from Antioch to the Euphrates, charged with supplying the thughur; matched by the Byzantines' own Taurus defence line.