Al-Asmandi, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid

الأسمندي محمد بن عبد الحميد

1095 CE · 488 AH – 1158 CE · 553 AH

A scholar recorded in the biographical dictionaries. The sources differ on his kunya and origins.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi · Abu al-Barakat al-Khidr ibn Shibl · Abd Allah al-Tusi, khatib of Mosul · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi

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Place in the story

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

Overview

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid al-Asmandi, a scholar whose biographical entries are recorded in the books of biographies. The sources differ about his kunya and origins. He was born around 488 AH (1095 CE) and died around 553 AH (1158 CE). Both dates rest on one source and need an additional source. 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
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Asmandi, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-asmandi-muhammad-ibn-abd-al-hamid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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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.