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- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Summary
Abu'l-Qasim 'Umar ibn al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah al-Khiraqi, jurist of the Hanbalis, author of the Mukhtasar on Ahmad ibn Hanbal's madhhab which became one of the two base-texts of the school. He transmitted from a circle; Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i, Ibn al-Sawwaf and 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Ja'far transmitted from him, and he was al-Marwazi's successor. He died on the day of Fitr and was buried at Bab Harb beside Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal's grave. 1
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 207
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Umar ibn Husayn al-Khiraqi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umar-ibn-husayn-al-khiraqi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.