Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra'

أبو يعلى ابن الفراء

c. 1066 CE · 19 Ramadan 458 AH

Abu Ya'la Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Farra' al-Hanbali, d. Baghdad AH 458 — author of the Hanbali al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Overview

Abu Ya'la Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Farra al-Hanbali, the shaykh and imam, who died in Baghdad in 458 AH. 2

His works

He is the author of al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya. 2

The Gregorian date of his death (about 1066 CE) is calculated from the Hijri date and is not stated in the source.

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Parent of
Abu Khazim ibn al-Qadi Abu Ya'la
Authored
al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya by Abu Ya'la
Studied under
أبو عبد الله الحسن بن حامد الوراق الحنبلي

People and things also explored

Abu Khazim ibn al-Qadi Abu Ya'la· أبو عبد الله الحسن بن حامد الوراق الحنبلي· al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya by Abu Ya'la

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 214
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p.214
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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Abu Khazim ibn al-Qadi Abu Ya'la

The ascetic Hanbali jurist Abu Khazim Muhammad ibn Muhammad — son of the qadi-imam Abu Ya'la and brother of qadi Abu al-Husayn; b. Safar 457, a year before his father's death, receiving his ijaza; he heard Ibn al-Muslima and Ibn al-Ma'mun, read fiqh under qadi Ya'qub and excelled in madhhab, khilaf and usul, authoring al-Tabsira on khilaf, Ru'us al-masa'il and a commentary on the Mukhtasar al-Khiraqi; d. Monday 19 Safar 527, buried at his Bab al-Azaj house, translated in 534 to Imam Ahmad's cemetery beside his father.