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al-Burhan Ibn 'Awn the Hanafi

البرهان ابن عون الحنفي

between 1432 and 1433 CE · 836 AH – between 1510 and 1511 CE · 916 AH

Damascus's Hanafi mufti (b. 836) — pupil of al-Sa'di and al-Bakri, audited al-Sakhawi, and 'drew from the manners of our shaykh Ibn Qiddis his dignity and some of his virtues' through long companionship; buried before Bab al-Faradis, d. 916 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

13751400142514501475150015251550 c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Burhan al-Din Ibn Abi Sharif al-Maqdisi · Ibrahim Ibn al-Qalqashandi · al-Taqi Ibn Zurayq · Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ashmuni

Law and courts

Summary

Shaykh of shaykhs Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Shihab al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ma'arri al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn Awn al-Hanafi, the mufti of the Hanafis in Damascus. He was born in the year 836 1.

He studied with al-Shams al-Sa'di and al-Bakri and heard hadith from al-Sakhawi. He took on the dignified bearing of his teacher Ahmad ibn Qudus and some of his virtues, through his close discipleship and long companionship with him 1.

He died in the year 916 and was buried in front of Bab al-Faradis, to the south 1.

People and things also explored

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. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 467
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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.