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Abu al-Hayyaj al-Asadi

أبو الهياج الأسدي

Amr ibn Malik ibn Ju'ada al-Asadi; in al-Baladhuri Sa'd appointed him over the people's plot-marking at Kufa's founding.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abu al-Hayyaj al-Asadi, that is Amr ibn Malik ibn Ju'ada al-Asadi. Al-Baladhuri says that Sa'd appointed him to lay out the plots for the people on the day Kufa was founded as a garrison city. 1

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The police (shurta) under Ali

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Hisba (market supervision and enjoining good)· Ali's inquiry into a missing traveller and his wealth· Ma'qil ibn Qays al-Riyahi· The police (shurta) under Ali

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
  • Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi
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Hisba (market supervision and enjoining good)

An administrative and juristic institution of the Islamic state, rooted in enjoining good and forbidding wrong. The holder, the muhtasib, supervises markets, weights and measures, public morals and fraud in sales. The editors of Maʿalim al-Qurba note that the rightly guided caliphs held it themselves at first, then appointed deputies as the conquests grew.