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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad the qadi

الخليل بن أحمد القاضي

c. October 988 CE · Jumada II 378 AH

Al-Khalil b. Ahmad the qadi (d. 378), shaykh of the Hanafis in his time — foremost in fiqh and preaching; he heard hadith from Muhammad b. Ishaq b. Khuzayma and his peers and in Iraq from al-Baghawi and Ibn al-Sa'id and theirs; he died Jumada II 378 1.

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Roles
Jurist · judge
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

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Overview

Al-Khalil b. Ahmad, the qadi (d. 378), shaykh of the ahl al-ra'y in his era; advanced in fiqh and preaching, he heard hadith from Muhammad b. Ishaq b. Khuzayma and his peers, and heard in Iraq al-Baghawi, Ibn Sa'id and their peers; he died in Jumada II 378. 1

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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)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm· Secularism and Islam — conflict or concord· Stoning (rajm) as a penalty for zina· Allusion to a proposal during the waiting period· Aman (safe-conduct granted to enemies in war)· Amana (trust, deposit and what is entrusted)

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.146
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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)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.