At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
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
Abu al-Yusr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Karim al-Bazdawi, titled Sadr al-Islam, a Hanafi jurist from Bukhara and judge of Samarqand. The encyclopaedia credits him with leadership of the Hanafis in his age, and says he is attributed to Bazda, beyond the river. He was born in 421 AH (1030 CE) and died in 493 AH (1100 CE). 1
The dates come from one source and need a second.
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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Bazdawi Abu al-Yusr Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bazdawi-abu-al-yusr-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.