al-Jassas

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Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jassās ( Arabic ابو بكر أحمد بن علي الجصاص, DMG Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ǧaṣṣāṣ b. 917, d. 981 in Nischapur ) was a Hanafi scholar in the 10th century .

Hardly any details are known about his living conditions. According to al-Chatib al-Baghdadi , he died in Baghdad in 331 AH (942 AD) . He is known as the commentator on an important work in adab al-qadi literature , which deals with rules of conduct for the judge ( qādī ). He commented on the work Kitāb sharḥ Adab al-qāḍī lil-Khaṣṣāf by al-Chassāf .

His Aḥkām al-Qur'ān is considered to be an important work of Koran exegesis .

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 )
  • Aḥkām al-Qur'ān , Beirut, Lebanon: Dār al-Iḥyā 'al-Turāth, 1984
  • Aḥkām al-qurʾān . Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīya, 1994

literature

  • Otto Spies : Art. Al Dj Assas in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. II, p. 486.
  • Peter C. Hennigan: “al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874)”, in: Oussama Arabi, David Stephan Powers, Susan Ann Spectorsky: Islamic Legal Thought. A Compendium of Muslim Jurists Brill Academic Pub, 2013, ISBN 9789004254527 ( publisher's link )
  • Mathieu Tillier: Women before the qāḍī under the Abbasids , Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 16 (2009)
  • Peter C Hennigan: The birth of a legal institution: the formation of the waqf in third-century AH Ḥanafī legal discourse. 2003
  • 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. Hildesheim: Olms 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 )
  • Ulrich Rebstock: “Weighing up as a decision-making aid in the uṣūl al-fiqh: the beginnings of the tarǧīḥ method in al-Ǧaṣṣāṣ”, in Der Islam 80 (2003) 110–121.
  • Hans-Thomas Tillschneider: The emergence of legal hermeneutics (uṣūl al-fiqh) in early Islam
  • Oussama Arabi, David Stephan Powers, Susan Ann Spectorsky: Islamic Legal Thought. A Compendium of Muslim Jurists Brill Academic Pub, 2013, ISBN 9789004254527 ( publisher's link )

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See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ This was translated into English by Gilbert Paul Verbit (2008).
  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”.


personal data
SURNAME Jassas, al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jassās, Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn ʿAlī al-; ابو بكر أحمد بن علي الجصاص (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanafi scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 917
DATE OF DEATH 981
Place of death Nishapur