Ibn Ruzgan, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

ابن رزكان محمد بن محمد

1299 CE · 699 AH – 1372 CE · 774 AH

A Shafi'i born and raised in Baalbek, who lived in the eighth century AH.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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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 Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim ibn Ridwan al-Ba'li al-Shafi'i, a Shafi'i by school, born and raised in Ba'labakk. 1

Identification

He lived in the eighth century AH. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as around 699 AH and his death as around 774 AH. These dates come from one source and need an additional source. 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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.599
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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.