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al-Kharaqi

الخرقي

334 AH

Damascus

Author of the famous Mukhtasar al-Kharaqi on the jurisprudence of Imam Ahmad; he died in Damascus in 334 AH.

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Roles
Jurist · writer
Counted among
Sunni (Hanbali)
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Damascus

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Summary

Umar ibn al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Qasim al-Kharaqi, author of the famous Mukhtasar in Ahmad's school 1. The Mukhtasar was explained by Judge Abu Ya'la, his shaykh Ibn Hamid, and Muwaffaq al-Din al-Maqdisi in his book al-Mughni 1. Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki said the number of al-Kharaqi's questions is two thousand three hundred 1. He died in Damascus in 334 AH 1.

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Died in
Damascus

People and things also explored

Ibn Rajab al-HanbaliFadala ibn UbaydAbd al-Qadir ibn BadranUqba ibn Amir al-JuhaniWathila ibn al-Asqa'DamascusThe phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's wordsThe reports from Imam Ahmad

Sources

  1. al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition), p. 125
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Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

The Hanbali hadith master and jurist Zayn al-Din Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad, known as Ibn Rajab after his grandfather Rajab; born in Baghdad in 736 AH, moved to Damascus in 744, travelled for learning to Egypt, the Hijaz and Jerusalem, and died in Damascus in 795 AH. Author of 'Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam'.