Ibrahim ibn Abi al-Wafa

إبراهيم بن أبي الوفاء

1519 CE · 925 AH

Son of 'Ala' al-Din Ibn Abi al-Wafa — his own father's entry calls him 'my son the mujtahid, devout ascetic preacher'; a mufti who led people in prayer through three hundred and fifty khatmas of the Qur'an, teacher and companion of Sufis; d. 925 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca

Worship and the pillars

Summary

Ibrahim ibn Abi'l-Wafa' the Hanafi; his father wrote his entry: 'My son Ibrahim, the striving, worshipping, ascetic preacher'; he read on the scholars of his age as a mufti, led the people in prayer to three hundred and fifty completions, took up teaching and was engaged with the Sufis and preaching; he died in 925. 1

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 546
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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.