Abu Abdallah Ja'far ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Ja'far ibn Sulayman ibn Ali al-Hashimi ( ar, أبو عبد الله جعفر بن عبد الواحد بن جعفر بن سليمان بن علي الهاشمي) (died 871/2?) was a
Chief judge
A chief judge (also known as presiding judge, president judge or principal judge) is the highest-ranking or most senior member of a lower court or circuit court with more than one judge. According to the Federal judiciary of the United States, th ...
of the
Abbasid Caliphate, from 854 to 863/4.
He was a minor member of the Abbasid dynasty, being a descendant of
Sulayman ibn Ali, the uncle of the caliphs
al-Saffah
Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saffāḥ ( ar, أبو العباس عبد الله بن محمد السفّاح; 721/722 – 8 June 754, al-Anbar) usually known as Abūʾl-ʿAbbās as-Saffāḥ or simply by his laqab As-S ...
and
al-Mansur. Although his jurisdictional background is obscure, he was appointed as chief judge (''qadi al-qudat'') by
al-Mutawakkil
Abū al-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim bi-ʾllāh ( ar, جعفر بن محمد المعتصم بالله; March 822 – 11 December 861), better known by his regnal name Al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh (, "He who relies on God") was t ...
in July 854 as a replacement for
Yahya ibn Aktham
Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Aktham ( ar, أبو محمد يحيى بن أكثم, died 857) was a ninth century Arab Faqīh, Islamic jurist. He twice served as the Qadi, chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate, from ca. 825 to 833 and 851 to 854.
Career ...
. His tenure in office is notable for his participation in the
Arab–Byzantine prisoner exchange of 856, during which
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Shawarib acted as his deputy in
Samarra
Samarra ( ar, سَامَرَّاء, ') is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, north of Baghdad. The city of Samarra was founded by Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutasim for his Turkish professional army ...
. He remained in office until 863 or 864, when he was dismissed and exiled to
Basra after the general
Wasif al-Turki accused him of engaging with the ''
shakiriyya
The ''shākiriyya'' were a regular cavalry regiment of the Abbasid Caliphate in the "Samarra period" in the 9th century. Probably of Khurasani and Iranian origin, they were rivals of the Turkish guard, and played a major role in the court conflict ...
'' troops in a suspicious manner. He was eventually allowed to return to the capital, where in 866 he unsuccessfully attempted to settle a violent dispute between the
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
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and
Maghariba army regiments. In 870 he led the prayers at the funeral of the caliph
al-Muhtadi. He died in 871/2, or in 881/2 or 882/3 according to alternative accounts.
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See also
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Al-Ḫaṣṣāf
Al-Ḫaṣṣāf () (died 874, full name ''Abū-Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿUmar Ibn-Muhair aš-Šaibānī al-Ḫaṣṣāf'')
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'' ...
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