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Burhan al-Husayni, naqib of Damascus

برهان الحسيني نقيب دمشق

between 1507 and 1508 CE · 913 AH

Damascus's naqib al-ashraf — when an official sought to jail him, Sultan Qaytbay freed him, and his word was undone with a ring 'for shackles are not for the necks of the Prophet ﷺ's house'; he judged and deputized repeatedly and rode the mahmal on the 919 hajj 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · noble
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi

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Summary

Amir Burhan al-Din al-Husayni al-'Alawi, naqib of the ashraf at Damascus; advanced in the Prophetic house as was the government's custom. A man wronged him when he sought to imprison him — Sultan Qaytbay released him and struck off the iron collar from his neck, such collars being for the People of the House; he made the hajj, held the awqaf, judgeship and regency several times, and pilgrimaged with the mahmal in 819. 1

People and things also explored

Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm· Secularism and Islam — conflict or concord· Stoning (rajm) as a penalty for zina· Allusion to a proposal during the waiting period· Aman (safe-conduct granted to enemies in war)· Amana (trust, deposit and what is entrusted)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 466
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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.