ابن فتحون (خلف بن سليمان)

ابن فتحون (خلف بن سليمان)

Khalaf ibn Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Muhammad ibn Fathun, Abu al-Qasim, of Orihuela in al-Andalus, a Maliki jurist, writer and poet. He was judge of Shatiba and then Denia. He related from his father, Abu al-Walid al-Baji and Tahir ibn Mawfaz, and was related from by his son Muhammad and Ziyad ibn Muhammad. His book on contracts was the first of its kind. The header gives 505 AH as his death year. ¹