Abu Abdullah `Ubaidullah bin Muhammad bin Battah al-`Ukbari al-Hanbali, known as Ibn Battah was a
Hanbali
The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ...
theologian and jurisconsult born at 'Ukbara
in 304/c. 917.
He learned from a number of Hanbali scholars of his time and also personally knew
al-Barbahari.
Ibn Batta was severely attacked by
Khatib al-Baghdadi
Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thābit ibn Aḥmad ibn Māhdī al-Shāfiʿī, commonly known as al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī ( ar, الخطيب البغدادي) or "the lecturer from Baghdad" (10 May 1002 – 5 September 1071; 392 AH-463 AH), wa ...
, a former Hanbali though he was defended by
Ibn al-Jawzi
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abu 'l-Faras̲h̲ b. al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (Arabic: ابن الجوزي, ''Ibn al-Jawzī''; ca. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short, or reverentially as ''Imam Ibn al-Jawzī'' by ...
who was much influenced by him.
Books
* Al-Ibaanah (Al-Kubra/Al-Sugra); Kitab al-sharh wa al-ibanah ala usul al-sunnah wa al-dinayah. in Henry Laoust, La Profession de foi d'Ibn Batta. Damascus: Institut Francais de Damas, 1958.
* Al-Sunna
* Al-Manasik
* Tahrim an-Namina
See also
*
Hanbali Scholars
The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ...
References
External links
Ibn Baṭṭa, ʿUbayd Allāh b. Muḥammad Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿUkbari/ Laoust, H. //
Encyclopaedia of Islam
The ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' (''EI'') is an encyclopaedia of the academic discipline of Islamic studies published by Brill. It is considered to be the standard reference work in the field of Islamic studies. The first edition was published in ...
. 2 ed. — Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1960–2005.
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910s births
997 deaths
People from Baghdad
Hanbalis
Sunni Muslim scholars
Hadith scholars
10th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
10th-century jurists