الشريف أبو جعفر

Leader of the Hanbalis of Baghdad in the time of al-Qa'im and al-Muqtadi. Ibn al-Jawzi reports that he stood against Abu Nasr ibn al-Qushayri the Ash'ari, until the strife of Shawwal 469 AH ¹.

When the vizier Fakhr al-Dawla summoned him to reconcile the two sides, Ibn al-Jawzi transmits his words: that their opponents claimed they were unbelievers, and that they held that whoever did not share their belief was likewise. He asked: "What reconciliation is there between us?" He argued from the belief of the two caliphs, al-Qa'im and al-Qadir ¹.

It is said that he fell ill after that, and his legs swelled. It is also said that some of the jurists placed poison in his shoe. Ibn al-Jawzi transmits this in the form of report, and it is not confirmed in another source ¹.