al-Hassaf

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al-Chassāf († 874 ), in another spelling al-Chaāf and with full name Abū-Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar Ibn-Muhair aš-Šaibānī al-Ḫaṣṣāf , was a Hanafi scholar from Iraq in the 9th century who worked as a court lawyer of the fourteenth Abbasid caliph al-Muhtadi († 870) was active.

He is the author of an important work in the adab al-kadi literature ( adab al-qādī  /أدب القاضي / adabu ʾl-qāḍī ), which deals with the rules of conduct for the judge ( qādī ).

Works

Kitāb sharḥ Adab al-qāḍī lil-Chaṣṣāf

His Adab al-qāḍī work was commented on in the 10th century by Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Rāzī al-Jaṣṣāṣ († 980).

It was translated into English by Gilbert Paul Verbit (2008).

Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫāriǧ

His Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫāriǧ deals with legal tricks and artifacts (on legal circumvention, see ḥiyal ).

Kitāb aḥkām al-awqāf

His Kitāb aḥkām al-awqāf deals with pious foundations of religion ( waqf ).

Editions & translations

  • al-Khaṣṣāf, Adab al-qāḍī, ed. Farāt Ziyāda (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1978) (with comments by al-Jaṣṣaṣ)
  • A ninth century treatise on the law of trusts: being a translation of Al-Khas̤s̤āf, Ahkām al-Waqūf / translated and edited by Gilbert Paul Verbit. [Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4363-2103-7 ( library link )
  • Abubakar Ahmad Ibn 'Amr al-Khassaf, Kitab Ahkam al-Awqaf (Cairo: Diwan' Umum al-Awqaf al-Misriyyah, 1904) ( library link )

literature

  • Peter C. Hennigan: al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874). n: Oussama Arabi, David Stephan Powers, Susan Ann Spectorsky: Islamic Legal Thought. A Compendium of Muslim Jurists Brill Academic Pub, 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-25452-7 ( publisher's link )
  • Mathieu Tillier: Women before the qāḍī under the Abbasids. In: Islamic Law and Society. Vol. 16 (2009), pp. 280-302.
  • Peter C Hennigan: The birth of a legal institution: the formation of the waqf in third-century AH Ḥanafī legal discourse. Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-13029-2 .
  • Ādāb al-Qāḍī: Islamic legal and judicial system . Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Khaṣṣāf; ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Ṣadr al-Shahid; Munir Ahmad Mughal
  • Abū Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr Ibn-Muhair al-Ḫaṣṣāf as-Shaibānī: Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫāriǧ . Ed. J. Schacht. Reprograph. Reprint of the Hanover 1923 edition. Olms, Hildesheim 1968.
  • Joseph Schacht (ed.): The Kitāb al-hiial ual-mahāriǧ of Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muhair aš-Šaibānī-al-H̱aṣṣāf. Hanover, 1923 (contributions to Semitic philology and linguistics; 4)
  • Christopher Melchert: Religious Policies of the Caliphs from al-Mutawakkil to al-Muqtadir, AH 232-295 / AD 847-908. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1996), pp. 316–342 ( partial view )

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ See dhulqarnayn.forum-actif.eu: Le Madhhab Hanafi
  2. ↑ Mathieu Tillier: Women before the qāḍī under the Abbasids (2009: 281): “In fact, these two works can hardly be separated: al-Khaṣṣāf's original text is included in al-Jaṣṣāṣ's commentary”
  3. ↑ cf. Peter C Hennigan (2003)
Al-Chassāf (alternative names of the lemma)
Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad al-Ḫaṣṣāf Ibn-ʿUmar; Abū-Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar aš-Shaibānī; Abū-Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr aš-Shaibānī al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Abū-Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar Ibn-Muhair aš-Shaibānī al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn 'Amr ibn Mahir al-Shaybani al-Khassaf; Abū-Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr Ibn-Muhair aš-Shaibānī al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr aš-Šaibānī al-Ḫaṣṣāf; ʿUmar al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Khaṣṣāf; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar al- Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Ḫaṣṣāf; Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Khaṣṣāf
personal data
SURNAME Al-Hassaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES al-Chaāf; al-Ḫaṣṣāf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanafite lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 874