At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · qadi
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
'Isa ibn Aban ibn Sadaqa, Abu Musa, was a judge among the great Hanafi jurists, quick in enforcing judgement and upright. He served the Abbasid al-Mansur for a time, then held the judgeship of Basra for ten years and died there. 1
His books include Ithbat al-Qiyas; Ijtihad al-Ra'y; al-Jami' on fiqh; and al-Hujja al-Saghira on hadith. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Basra
People and things also explored
Great Mosque of Basra· Qasr Qubadh / the Hajjaj palace at Basra· Abu Dawud's first journey: Baghdad, Basra and Mecca, 220/835· Al-Muwaffaq's three wishes: Abu Dawud settles at Basra, c. 272/885· Al-Ash'ari composes Maqalat al-Islamiyyin and his refutations of the Mu'tazila· Al-Ash'ari publicly renounces Mu'tazilism in the Great Mosque of Basra, 300/912-13· Al-Ash'ari, al-Jubba'i's pupil at Basra, and the three brothers debate· The Asawira's Settlement at Basra
Sources
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli , v.5 p.99
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Isa ibn Aban”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/isa-ibn-aban/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-10.
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