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]
Editions
- al-Khaṣṣāf, Adab al-qāḍī, ed. Farḥāt Ziyāda (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1978)
- Abubakar Ahmad Ibn ‘Amr al-Khassaf, Kitab Ahkam al-Awqaf (Cairo: Diwan ‘Umum al-Awqaf al-Misriyyah, 1904)
References
- Peter C. Hennigan: al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874).n: Oussama Arabi, David Stephan Powers, Susan Ann Spectorsky: Islamic Legal Thought. A Compendium of Muslim Jurists Brill Academic Pub, 2013,
- Mathieu Tillier: Women before the qāḍī under the Abbasids. In: Islamic Law and Society. Vol. 16 (2009), S. 280–302.
- Tillier, Mathieu. (2009). Les cadis d’Iraq et l’État abbasside (132/750-334/945). Damascus: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2009.
- Peter C Hennigan: The birth of a legal institution : the formation of the waqf in third-century A.H. Ḥanafī legal discourse. Brill, Leiden 2003, .
- Ādāb al-Qāḍī : Islamic legal and judicial system. Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Khaṣṣāf; ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Ṣadr al-Shahīd; Munir Ahmad Mughal
- Abū Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr Ibn-Muhair al-Ḫaṣṣāf aš-Šaibānī: Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫāriǧ. Ed. J. Schacht. Reprograf. Nachdr. der Ausg. Hannover 1923. Olms, Hildesheim 1968.
- Joseph Schacht (ed.): Das Kitāb al-hiial ual-mahāriǧ des Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muhair aš-Šaibānī-al-H̱aṣṣāf. Hannover, 1923 (Beiträge zur semitischen Philologie und Linguistik; 4)
- Christopher Melchert: Religious Policies of the Caliphs from al-Mutawakkil to al-Muqtadir, A H 232-295/A D 847-908. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1996), S. 316–342
Notes and References
- Schacht 1926, 218.
