At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ash'ari, Abu Ja'far, known as Hamdis al-Qattan — said to be of the progeny of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari — a Maliki jurist among the companions of Suhnun. 1 The text describes him as a sea of merit and a model of goodness, firm in the doctrines of the people of the Sunna, thoroughly pious, trustworthy and keeping his distance from the people of whims and from rulers. 1 He travelled and met Abu Mus'ab and others in Medina, and the companions of Ibn al-Qasim, Ibn Wahb and Ashhab in Egypt; a group transmitted from him, among them Ibn al-Labbad and al-Abyani. 1 The encyclopedia dates him 230–289 AH. 1
People and things also explored
Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16246
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Hamdis al-Qattan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hamdis/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.