al-Qadi al-Nu'man · Islam Museum

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Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Life in time

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

Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man b. Abi 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Mansur b. Ahmad b. Hayyun, qadi al-Nu'man the da'i; one of the imams of Isma'ili fiqh — qadi of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah the Fatimid and his da'i; a Maliki who moved to the Imami madhhab; he kept close to al-Mu'izz in Ifriqiya and entered Egypt with him. ¹

His works

Many works, among them Da'a'im al-Islam, Iftitah al-da'wa, Ikhtilaf usul al-madhahib and Kitab al-akhbar in fiqh; al-Musabbihi in his history describes him with knowledge, fiqh, religion and nobility. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Qadi al-Nu'man”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-qadi-al-numan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.

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