al-Baghdadi Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jabir

البغدادي أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن جابر

850 CE · 235 AH – 922 CE · 310 AH

Major scholar of the Zahiri legal school, which traces to Dawud ibn Ali al-Isfahani; wrote on the differences among jurists; died 310 AH (922 CE).

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman · Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali · al-Farbari

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

Overview

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jabir al-Baghdadi, a great scholar of the Zahiri school, which is attributed to Dawud ibn Ali al-Isbahani. He wrote on the disagreements of the jurists. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 235 AH and his death as 310 AH (922 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.613-614
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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.