al-Hawfi Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad

الحوفي أبو القاسم أحمد بن محمد

1192 CE · 588 AH

One of the leading specialists in inheritance law and contract formulas in al-Andalus; died 588 AH (1192 CE).

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

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-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Qal'i al-Hawfi al-Ishbili, one of the greatest specialists in the science of inheritance and the drawing up of contracts in al-Andalus. 1

Death

He died in 588 AH (1192 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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.368
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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.