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At a glance

Roles: Jurist · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region: al-Andalus & Europe
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad al-Suhrawardi · Ibn Balban Ala al-Din Ali · Zaynab bint al-Kamal · Ibn al-Jazari, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim · Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

JuristTradition

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

Overview

Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Ahmad al-Ash'ari al-Malaqi, a Maliki jurist from Málaga in al-Andalus, known as Ibn Bakr. ¹

He was born in 674 AH (1276 CE) and died in 741 AH (1340 CE), according to report. 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

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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.