al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya by Abu Ya'la

الأحكام السلطانية لأبي يعلى

Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra's al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya — the Hanbali counterpart to al-Mawardi's manual of public law 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq
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"Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya" (The Principles of Government) by the Imam Shaykh Abu Ya'la Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Farra' the Hanbali, who died in Baghdad in 458 AH, as Hajji Khalifa reports. 2

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Abu Khazim ibn al-Qadi Abu Ya'la· أبو عبد الله الحسن بن حامد الوراق الحنبلي· Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra'

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 214
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p.214
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Abu Khazim ibn al-Qadi Abu Ya'la

The ascetic Hanbali jurist Abu Khazim Muhammad ibn Muhammad — son of the qadi-imam Abu Ya'la and brother of qadi Abu al-Husayn; b. Safar 457, a year before his father's death, receiving his ijaza; he heard Ibn al-Muslima and Ibn al-Ma'mun, read fiqh under qadi Ya'qub and excelled in madhhab, khilaf and usul, authoring al-Tabsira on khilaf, Ru'us al-masa'il and a commentary on the Mukhtasar al-Khiraqi; d. Monday 19 Safar 527, buried at his Bab al-Azaj house, translated in 534 to Imam Ahmad's cemetery beside his father.