At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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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
Ala al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Husni al-Dimashqi al-Hanafi, known as al-Haskafi, a Hanafi mufti from Damascus of Husni origin. He is the author of "al-Durr al-Mukhtar" on Hanafi jurisprudence. 1
His life
He was born in 1025 AH (1616 CE) and died in 1088 AH (1677 CE), according to the encyclopaedia. 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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.32
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Haskafi, Muhammad ibn Ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-haskafi-muhammad-ibn-ali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.