Ali ibn Umar ibn al-Qassar

علي بن عمر بن أحمد ابن القصار

Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn al-Qassar, a Maliki jurist, usuli and hafiz. He studied with Abu Bakr al-Abhari and Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Suri; Abu Dharr al-Harawi, Abd al-Ghani al-Hafiz and Abd al-Wahhab taught under him. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi called him reliable. His book on disputed questions is the largest in the school. The printed text gives no date of death here. 1

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn al-Qassar, a Maliki jurist, usuli and hafiz. He studied with Abu Bakr al-Abhari and Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Suri; Abu Dharr al-Harawi, Abd al-Ghani al-Hafiz and Abd al-Wahhab taught under him. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi called him reliable. His book on disputed questions is the largest in the school. The printed text gives no date of death here. 1

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.13357
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