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al-Jajarmi

الجاجرمي

c. 1216 CE · 10 Jumada I 613 AH

Nishapur

The imam Mu'in al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Jajarmi, nisba to Jajarm, a town between Nishapur and Jurjan; a Shafi'i jurist and author of al-Kifaya fi al-fiqh. Ibn Khallikan said he was an excellent, precise and outstanding imam who settled in Nishapur, taught and wrote on fiqh. His al-Kifaya is extremely concise while containing many of the questions that arise in fatwas, and it is in one volume; he also wrote Idah al-Wajiz in two volumes, and he had a well-known method in khilaf and well-known fawa'id attributed to him. People studied under him and benefited from him and his books after him, especially the Qawa'id, which people took up with great eagerness. He died on the morning of Friday, 10 Rajab 613, at Nishapur 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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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 · Abdallah al-Yunini · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi

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Nishapur

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The imam Mu'in al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Jajarmi, of Jajarm a town between Nishapur and Jurjan — the Shafi'i jurist, author of al-Kifaya fi'l-fiqh. Ibn Khallikan says: an excellent, exact, outstanding imam who dwelt at Nishapur and taught; his Kifaya is the utmost brevity yet contains many questions arising in fatwas, in a single volume; his is also Idah al-wajiz in two volumes; he has a famous method in khilaf and famed fawa'id ascribed to him — people worked at him and profited from him and his books after him, especially the qawa'id which they bent to studying. He died the morning of Friday 10 Rajab 613 at Nishapur. 2

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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· Battle of Nishapur (1038)· The Conquest of Naysabur· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)· Khayyam's algebra treatise· The Nizamiyya of Nishapur

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 56
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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