Ahmad ibn Badil

أحمد بن بديل القاضي

258 AH

Abu Ja'far al-Yami al-Kufi, traditionist and judge of Kufa and Hamadhan — on appointment he said 'I have been betrayed in my old age' — who transmitted at Baghdad and died in 258 1.

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Roles
judge · Scholar
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abu Ja'far al-Yami al-Kufi, Ahmad b. Badil; he heard Abu Bakr Ibn 'Ayyash, 'Abdallah b. Idris, Hafs b. Ghiyath, 'Abd b. Fudayl, Waki', Abu Mu'awiya and others — a man of learning and excellence. He held Kufa's judgeship, saying when invested "I have been betrayed in my old age," and also held Hamadhan's; he came to Baghdad and related there. He died in 258. 1

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 101
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