Al-Khalwati, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

الخلوتي محمد بن أحمد

1678 CE · 1088 AH

An Egyptian Hanbali jurist, named after Buhut, known as al-Khalwati.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

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The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Rauf al-Sinkili · Abu Salim al-Ayyashi · Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja · Sultan Ahmed III

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Place in the story

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buhuti al-Hanbali, known as al-Khalwati al-Misri. A Hanbali jurist of Egypt, attributed to Buhut, and known as al-Khalwati. He died in 1088 AH (1678 CE), according to the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". 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
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Khalwati, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khalwati-muhammad-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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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.