At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni (Hanbali)
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Umar ibn al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Qasim al-Kharaqi, author of the famous Mukhtasar in Ahmad's school 1. The Mukhtasar was explained by Judge Abu Ya'la, his shaykh Ibn Hamid, and Muwaffaq al-Din al-Maqdisi in his book al-Mughni 1. Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki said the number of al-Kharaqi's questions is two thousand three hundred 1. He died in Damascus in 334 AH 1.
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488
Sources
- al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p. 125
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Kharaqi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-kharaqi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.