At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Umar ibn Muhammad al-Laythi al-Baghdadi, Abu al-Faraj, a Maliki jurist who studied fiqh under the qadi Isma'il and other Malikis. 1 Abu Bakr al-Abhari, Abu Ali ibn al-Sakan, Abu al-Qasim al-Shafi'i, Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Bandar and Umar ibn al-Mu'ammal al-Tarsusi transmitted from him. 1 He held the judgeship of Tarsus, Antioch, al-Massisa and other towns. 1 His works include al-Hawi on the madhhab of Malik and al-Luma' on usul al-fiqh. 1 The encyclopedia dates his death to 331 AH. 1
People and things also explored
Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16243
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Faraj al-Laythi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-al-faraj-al-laythi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.