Abu Ali Ibn Khayran

أبو علي ابن خيران

c. 932 CE · 320 AH

Abu Ali Ibn Khayran died in 320 ¹. The qadi-ship was offered to him and he did not accept it. One of the viziers of al-Muqtadir, whom al-Shirazi supposes to be Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Isa the vizier, posted men at his house to make him take up the office, but he did not take it up ¹. Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari used to relate that he reproached the qadi Abu al-Abbas Ibn Surayj for accepting the qadi-ship, and said that this matter had not been among our companions ¹.

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Roles: Jurist
Counted among: Sunni
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani · Abu Bakr al-Naysaburi Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad · Abu Bakr al-Sibi Ahmad ibn Muhammad · Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn al-Daqqaq al-Baghdadi

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Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Salih ibn Khayran, a jurist who died in 320 AH. ¹

He was offered the judgeship and did not accept it; one of the viziers of al-Muqtadir had a guard set at his house so that he would take it. Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari relates that he rebuked the judge Ibn Surayj for accepting the judgeship. ¹

Sources

Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p. 58

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