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- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Life in time
Overview
Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Isfara'ini, the jurist, shaykh of Iraq and imam of the Shafi'is to whom the leadership of the school came; he reached Baghdad as a boy and studied under Ibn al-Marzuban and Abu'l-Qasim al-Dariki — his lecture notes ran to about fifty volumes and seven hundred jurists attended his class, and they said "had al-Shafi'i seen him he would have rejoiced"; born in 344, he gave fatwas at seventeen. 2
Testimonies and death
Ibn al-Jawzi places his teaching circle in the mosque of 'Abdallah ibn al-Mubarak at the head of the Rabi' allotment; Abu'l-Husayn al-Quduri said "I never saw a better jurist among the Shafi'is than Abu Hamid," and al-Saymari "the cleverest jurist I ever saw"; he died on Saturday night with eleven nights left of Shawwal 406, and Abu 'Abdallah ibn al-Muhtadi, khatib of the Mansur mosque, led the funeral prayer in the open field in a grand assembly. 3
Connections
People and things also explored
al-Qadir bi-llah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir· Baghdad· al-Sharif al-Murtada· al-Sharif al-Radi· The Baghdad Attestation on Fatimid Lineage· The burning of a codex attributed to Ibn Mas'ud and the Karkh strife
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 178-179
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.178-179
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini, Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-hamid-al-isfarayini/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.