At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · teacher
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Ahmad al-Farra', Imad al-Din, Abu Ya'la al-Saghir — son of the qadi Abu Khazim and grandson of the qadi Abu Ya'la — a Baghdadi Hanbali jurist and the shaykh of the madhhab in his time. 1 He heard hadith from his father and his uncle the qadi Abu al-Husayn and their peers, studied fiqh under them, excelled in the madhhab, the divergences and disputation, and he gave fatwa, taught and held judgeship. 1 A large circle read the madhhab and the divergences under him, among them Abu Ishaq al-Saqal, Abu al-Abbas al-Qati'i, Abu al-Hasan ibn Warkhadh and Abu al-Baqa' al-Ukbari. 1 His works, as legible in the scan, include al-Ta'liqa on the questions of divergence, al-Mufradat and al-Nukt wa-l-Isharat. 1 The encyclopedia dates him 494–560 AH. 1
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Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16244
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Ya'la al-Saghir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-yala-al-saghir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.