Abū Muṣʿab Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥārith al-Zuhri ( ar, أبو مصعب أحمد بن أبي بكر القاسم بن الحارث الزهري), 767–856
CE / 150–242
AH, was a
Muslim scholar and
judge () who was a student of
Malik ibn Anas
Malik ibn Anas ( ar, مَالِك بن أَنَس, 711–795 CE / 93–179 AH), whose full name is Mālik bin Anas bin Mālik bin Abī ʿĀmir bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith bin Ghaymān bin Khuthayn bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī ...
.
[.]
He was born and lived in
Medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...
, where he wrote a work called ('The Epitome on
Fiqh
''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh.
The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...
'), as well as a
recension Recension is the practice of editing or revising a text based on critical analysis. When referring to manuscripts, this may be a revision by another author. The term is derived from Latin ''recensio'' ("review, analysis").
In textual criticism (as ...
of Malik ibn Anas'
.
[ He was dismissed from his position as qadi by Qutham ibn Ja'far in 210 AH (825/826 CE).][ In his judicial opinions (fatwas), he relied not only on hadith reports, but also on rational discretion ().][
Abū Muṣʿab's recension of the is approximately five to ten percent larger than the recension of ]Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Yahya ibn Kathir ibn Wislasen ibn Shammal ibn Mangaya al-Laythi () (died 848), better known as Yahya ibn Yahya, was a prominent Andalusian Muslim scholar. He was responsible for spreading the Maliki school of jurisprudence in ...
, which is considered the 'vulgate' or standard version in the Maliki school of law.[.]
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8th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
8th-century Arabs
9th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
9th-century Arabs
767 births
856 deaths
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