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Al-Ibshitay, Ahmad ibn Isma'il

الإبشيطي أحمد بن إسماعيل

1399 CE · 802 AH – 1478 CE · 883 AH

A Cairene jurist, first Shafi'i and then Hanbali; born in Ibshit in the Gharbiya province of Egypt.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Shihab ibn al-Hayyim 'al-Qa'im' · Sayf al-Din al-Baktmari · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan · Badr al-Din al-Ja'fari al-Nabulsi · Abd al-Baqi Yazdi

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

  • JuristTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Abi Bakr al-Abshitay al-Qahiri, a jurist who was Shafi'i and then Hanbali, from Cairo. He was born in Abshit in al-Gharbiyya in Egypt. 1

Dates

He was born in 802 AH (1399 CE) and died in 883 AH (1478 CE). 1

People and things also explored

Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.179-182
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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)

In the lexicon, add is gripping a thing with the teeth and holding it. If a person bites another without right and a wound results, the biter must pay the damages for the wound, assessed as a just award by experts. If one man bites another's hand and the bitten man pulls it free so that the biter's front teeth fall out, most jurists hold that there is no liability, relying on a prophetic judgement in such a case; the Shafi'is limit this to a bitten man who chose the easiest means of release, and the preferred Maliki view requires compensation.