At a glance
- Roles
- Vizier · Scholar
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Ja'far ibn al-Fadl ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn al-Furat, Abu'l-Fadl, known as Ibn Hinzaba the vizier; born Dhu'l-Hijja 308; he settled in Egypt and held the vizierate for its amir Kafur — his father had been al-Muqtadir's vizier; he transmitted from Muhammad ibn Harun al-Hadrami and his generation of Baghdadis and used to say: whoever brings me a majlis of al-Baghawi's sessions I will enrich; he dictated hadith at Egypt — al-Daraqutni came out to him, stayed with him a while and compiled his Musnad, and a great sum came to him through it; al-Daraqutni narrated hadiths from him in the book al-Madih; he died in Rabi' I 391. 1
Connections
- Patron of
- Al-Daraqutni
- Child of
- al-Fadl ibn Ja'far ibn al-Furat
People and things also explored
Muwatta 45· Muwatta 46· Muwatta 141· Muwatta 252· Muwatta 412· Muwatta 538· Muwatta 544· Muwatta 557
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.216
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “أبو الفضل جعفر بن الفرات ابن حزابة الوزير”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jafar-ibn-al-furat-hinzaba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.