Qadi Abd al-Jabbar

القاضي عبد الجبار

Draft card for Qadi Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad al-Hamadhani, the Mu'tazili theologian and qadi of Rayy author of al-Mughni, d. 1025; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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People and things also explored

The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· Ghayba (occultation)· Ilm al-kalam (speculative theology)· The Imamate· Infallibility of the Imams (Twelver Shi'a)· The doctrine of the awaited Mahdi (al-mahdiyya)· Raj'a (the return to the world)· Disavowal (tabarri) of the Companions in Twelver Shi'a sources

Sources

  • Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin

al-Tahawi's principle of calling the people of the qibla Muslims and believers so long as they accept what the Prophet brought, and of not declaring any of them an unbeliever for a sin unless he declares it lawful.