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Shihab al-Din Ibn al-'Askari

شهاب الدين ابن العسكري

c. April 1507 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 912 AH

Damascus's Hanbali mufti — 'no peer in his age for learning, humility and Salafi-style austerity', a recluse who annotated fatwas; his fiqh book combining al-Muqni' and al-Tanqih was unfinished when he died in Dhu'l-Hijja 912 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi

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Summary

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn al-Askari al-Salihi al-Dimashqi al-Hanbali, the Hanbali mufti of Damascus. He was a pious, ascetic and blessed man. He wrote out his fatwas with great care. In his time he had no equal in learning, humility and simple living in the manner of the early generations. He kept apart from people and mixed with them rarely 2.

He wrote a book of jurisprudence that combined two standard Hanbali works, al-Muqni and al-Tanqih. He died before finishing it, in Dhu al-Hijja of the year 912 3.

People and things also explored

Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm· Secularism and Islam — conflict or concord· Stoning (rajm) as a penalty for zina· Allusion to a proposal during the waiting period· Aman (safe-conduct granted to enemies in war)· Amana (trust, deposit and what is entrusted)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 465-466
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 465
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 466
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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.