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Umm al-Wahid

أم الواحد الحاملية

c. 987 CE · 377 AH

Umm al-Wahid, daughter of the qadi Abu Abdallah al-Hamili (d. 377) — she memorised Qur'an, fiqh, grammar and inheritance law, excelled in the Shafi'i school and issued fatwas alongside Abu Ali ibn Abi Hurayra 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

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Umm al-Wahid, daughter of Qadi Abu 'Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Isma'il al-Hamili, memorized the Qur'an, fiqh, grammar, the inheritance-shares and the sciences, and excelled in al-Shafi'i's madhhab; she used to issue fatwas alongside Abu 'Ali ibn Abi Hurayra. 1

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 88
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