Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

al-Husni Taqi al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad

الحصني تقي الدين أبو بكر بن محمد

1351 CE · 752 AH – 1426 CE · 829 AH

Shafi'i jurist of Damascus, known as al-Husni and called Taqi al-Din; born 752 AH (1351 CE), died 829 AH (1426 CE).

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

13001325135013751400142514501475 c. c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad · Shams al-Din Ibn al-Jazari · Majd al-Din Isma'il al-Barmawi · Al-Abbi, Muhammad ibn Khalfa · Shams al-Din al-Kughiri

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 Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Mu'min ibn Huraz ibn Mu'alla al-Husni al-Dimashqi, a Shafi'i jurist of Damascus, titled Taqi al-Din and known as al-Husni. 1

His life

He was born in 752 AH (1351 CE) and died in 829 AH (1426 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.35
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “al-Husni Taqi al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-hisni-taqi-al-din-abu-bakr-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

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.