Abu'l-Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Abi'l-Shawarib () was a 10th-century Muslim
jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
who served as chief
qadi of
Baghdad.
Born in 904/5, Muhammad belonged to the
Banu Abi'l-Shawarib family of the
Banu Umayyad clan, a
Hanafi legal family that in the 9th and 11th centuries produced 24 qadis, including eight chief qadis, for the
Abbasid caliphs. Muhammad was named chief qadi of the
City of al-Mansur and of Sharqiya (West Baghdad, where the caliphal palaces were located) by caliph
al-Mustakfi in September 944, shortly after his accession. At the same time, his brother
Abdallah ibn Abi al-Shawarib
Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Abi'l-Shawarib () was a 10th-century Muslim jurist who served as chief qadi of Baghdad.
Born in November/December 931, Abdallah belonged to the Banu Abi'l-Shawarib fa ...
served as qadi of East Baghdad. Muhammad was deposed and arrested on 16 September 945, as part of the caliph's purge of corrupt judges.
When
al-Muti became caliph in January 946, he was recalled to office, as qadi of Sharqiya, the Two Holy Cities (
Mecca and
Medina),
Yemen,
Egypt, part of
Syria
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, and the
Iraqi provinces of Saqi al-Furat,
Wasit and
Samarra
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. He was dismissed again in January/February 947, and died in November/December 958.
His brother
Abdallah
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served as chief qadi in 961–963.
References
Sources
* {{cite book , last = Busse , first = Heribert , title = Chalif und Grosskönig - Die Buyiden im Irak (945-1055) , trans-title = Caliph and Great King - The Buyids in Iraq (945-1055) , language = German , origyear = 1969 , year = 2004 , location = Würzburg , publisher = Ergon Verlag , isbn = 3-89913-005-7
904 births
958 deaths
10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Hanafis
Chief qadis of the Abbasid Caliphate
Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate
10th-century Arab people