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Al-Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Jall

الحسين بن علي الجل المعتزلي

c. 978 CE · c. 368 AH

Al-Husayn b. 'Ali Abu 'Abd Allah al-Basri, known as al-Jall (d. c. 368), who settled at Baghdad among the shaykhs of the Mu'tazila, composed on their doctrines and took the Iraqi school's positions in the branches; Abu 'Ali al-Farisi led his funeral prayer and he was buried in the plot of his teacher Abu'l-Hasan al-Karkhi in Darb al-Hasan b. Zayd, at nearly eighty 1.

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Roles
theologian · Scholar
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Overview

Al-Husayn b. 'Ali, Abu 'Abdallah of Basra, known as al-Jall (d. c. 368); he dwelt at Baghdad among the shaykhs of the Mu'tazila, wrote on their doctrines and followed in the branches the madhhab of the people of Iraq; Imam Abu 'Ali al-Farisi prayed over him and he was buried in the mausoleum of his teacher Abu'l-Hasan al-Karkhi on Darb al-Hasan b. Zayd, at nearly eighty. 1

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.106
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