Al-Shayhi, Ali ibn Muhammad

الشيحي علي بن محمد

1279 CE · 678 AH – 1339 CE · 741 AH

A Baghdadi scholar of jurisprudence and hadith in the eighth century AH.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad al-Suhrawardi · Ibn Bakr, Muhammad ibn Yahya · Ibn Balban Ala al-Din Ali · Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi · Zaynab bint al-Kamal

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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

Ala al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Shaykhi al-Baghdadi, a Baghdadi scholar of jurisprudence and hadith in the eighth century AH. 1

Dates

The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 678 AH (1279 CE) and his death as 741 AH (1339 CE). 1

His teachers, pupils and works need an additional source.

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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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.