At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- 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
Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Yazid ibn Isa al-Istakhri, one of the imams of the Shafi'is in Baghdad and judge of Qum. He is attributed to Istakhr in Fars. He was born in 244 AH (858 CE) and died in 328 AH (940 CE). 1
Both dates rest on one source and need an additional source.
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.111
- Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Istakhri, Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-istakhri-abu-said-al-hasan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.