Al-Tattai, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Jurist · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Maghreb
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Dalji al-'Uthmani · Ibn al-Himsi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad · Wajih al-Din al-Shaybani al-Zabidi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ashmuni

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Place in the story

JuristTradition

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

Overview

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Khalil al-Tattai al-Maliki, a Maliki jurist, author of "Tanwir al-Maqala" on Maliki jurisprudence. He was born in 855 AH (1451 CE) and died in 942 AH (1535 CE). 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

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.391

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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.