Ibrahim al-Damiri, the Maliki chief qadi

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Chief judge and shaykh of shaykhs Burhan al-Din Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Damiri, a Maliki. He reached his post through his own effort, became chief judge of the Malikis in Cairo, and stayed as a neighbour of Shaykh Ahmad ibn al-Mirghi in al-Za'faran ¹.

The author of al-Kawakib reports that, when he was to preach to Sultan al-Ghuri one Monday night in Ramadan, Ibrahim al-Damiri was forced to preach in the sultan's presence. He died on Wednesday, the thirteenth of Ramadan in the year 913, and Sultan al-Ghuri prayed the funeral prayer over him ¹.

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.

Ibrahim al-Damiri, the Maliki chief qadi

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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)