أبو طالب ابن البقال الحنبلي
أبو طالب ابن البقال الحنبلي
c. 1048 CE · Rabi' I 440 AH
Abu Talib Ahmad b. Abdallah, 'Ibn al-Baqqal' — the eloquent Hanbali mufti of Baghdad whose circle sat at the Mansur mosque, famed for his sayings at the caliph's court, among them the epigram 'the caliphate is an egg and the Hanbalis its brood-hen ... a tent whose ridge-pole they are'. Died Rabi' I 440 1.
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At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Review
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 264-265
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