al-Baqillani

Qadi Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Tayyib ibn Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Baqillani al-Basri, one of the best-known theologians of the Ash'ari school and one of its great systematisers; he settled in Baghdad and died there on 7 Dhu'l-Qa'da 403 AH ¹.

Ibn Khallikan describes al-Baqillani as a defender of the Ash'ari doctrine and path who settled in Baghdad and wrote many famous works in kalam and other fields; he was unmatched in his age, headship of the school devolved on him, he was noted for acute inference and quick reply, he transmitted hadith, and he was famous for the length of his disputations ¹.

He died on a Saturday evening and was buried on Sunday, seven days before the end of Dhu'l-Qa'da 403 AH in Baghdad, first in his house in Darb al-Majus and later reburied in the Bab Harb cemetery ¹.

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