Abu al-Husayn al-Quduri Ahmad ibn Muhammad

Abu'l-Husayn Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Ja'far b. Hamdan al-Baghdadi al-Quduri, the jurist, shaykh of Iraq's Hanafis; the headship of the madhhab ended with him — his standing grew great and his fame far — fine of expression in verse; he wrote the famous Mukhtasar on the madhhab among others, and debated the Shafi'i jurist Shaykh Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini while greatly honouring him. ¹

Born in 362; he died at Baghdad, was buried the same day in his house on Darb Abi Khalaf, then moved to a mausoleum on Mansur Street and buried beside the Hanafi jurist Abu Bakr al-Khwarizmi. ¹