At a glance
- Roles
- qadi
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
In brief
Hafs b. Ghiyath, Abu Umar al-Nakha'i of Kufa, judge of Baghdad then judge of Kufa; he narrated from Asim al-Ahwal, Layth b. Abi Sulaym, Hisham b. Urwa, Ubaydallah b. Umar, and many others, while his son Umar b. Hafs, Ahmad, Ishaq, Ali b. al-Madini, Ibn Ma'in, Ibn Abi Shayba, Ya'qub al-Dawraqi, al-Hasan b. Arafa, Ahmad al-Mutarriz, and many more narrated from him; he was born in 117 AH. 1
His standing
Yahya al-Qattan said "Hafs is the most reliable of al-A'mash's companions", Yahya b. Ma'in said that all that Hafs narrated in Baghdad and Kufa came from memory — they wrote from him three to four thousand hadiths without a book, Abu Ja'far al-Musnadi said "Hafs b. Ghiyath was among the most generous of the Arabs and used to say whoever does not eat from my table I will not narrate to", and Hafs himself said "by God I was only given the judgeship when carrion became lawful to me", carrying an eight-hundred-dirham debt. 1
His death
Hafs died at the end of 184 AH. 1
Sources
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.278
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Hafs ibn Ghiyath”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hafs-ibn-ghiyath/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.