Abu Bakr al-Khassaf explained

Honorific Prefix:Al-Hassāf
الحصّاف
Abu-Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Amru ash-Shaybani al-Khassaf
أبو بكر أحمد بن عمرو الشيباني الخصاف
Region:Abbasid Caliphate
Era:Islamic Golden Age
Parents:Umar Ibn-Muhair
Children:ibn al-Hassāf
Birth Date:800s
Death Date:874
Death Place:Abbasid Caliphate
Religion:Islam
Creed:Athari
Main Interests:Aqidah, (Islamic theology), Tawhid, Islamic jurisprudence, Ḥiyal
Office1:Qadi of the Abbasid Court
Term Start1:869
Term End1:870
Notable Works:Author of a seminal work on Qadi, known as Adab al-qadi
Known For:Hanafi law scholar at the court of Caliph al-Muhtadi.
Influences:Abu Hanifa,
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Denomination:Sunni
Jurisprudence:Hanafi

Abu Bakr al-Khassaf (Abu Bakr Al-Ḫaṣṣāf) (died 874, full name Abu-Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Amru ash-Shaybani al-Khassaf)was a Hanafite law scholar at the court of the 14th Abbasid Caliph al-Muhtadi.

He is the author of a seminal work on Qādī, known as Arabic: أدب القاضي Adab al-qādī. A commentary on the work was written by al-Jaṣṣās in the 10th century.An English translation was published by G. P. Verbit in 2008.

Al-Ḫaṣṣāf is also the author of a Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫārij, a work on legalistic trickery or ḥiyal, and a kitāb aḥkām al-awqāf, on religious institutions or waqf.

The earliest development of this field is the Kitāb al-maḫārij fī l-ḥiyal ("book of evasion and trickery") by Muhammad al-Shaybani (d. 805). A more comprehensive treatment is the Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫārijby Al-Khassaf.[1]

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  1. Schacht 1926, 218.