Al-Jassas

Al-Jaṣṣās (, 305 AH/917 AD - 370 AH/981 AD; full name ''Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī al-Jaṣṣāṣ'') was a Hanafite scholar, Jonathan A.C. Brown (2007), ''The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon'', p.151. Brill Publishers. . mostly known as the commentator of Al-Ḫaṣṣāf's work on '' Qādī'' (jurisprudence).
According to Tillier (2009:281), the original work and its commentary can now "hardly be separated: al-Khaṣṣāf's original text is included in al-Jaṣṣāṣ's commentary".
Al-Jaṣṣās is also the author of a work on ''tafsir'', ''Aḥkām al-Qur'ān''.

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)
*''Aḥkām al-Qur’ān'', Beirut, Libanon: Dār al-Iḥyā’ al-Turāth, 1984
*''Aḥkām al-qurʾān''. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīya, 1994

References

* Otto Spies, ''al-Djaṣṣāṣ'', EI2, p. 486
* Peter C. Hennigan: “al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874)”, in: 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
Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 16 (2009)
* Peter C Hennigan: ''The birth of a legal institution : the formation of the waqf in third-century A.H. Ḥanafī legal discourse. '' 2003
* ''Ādāb al-Qāḍī: Islamic legal and judicial system''. Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Khaṣṣāf; ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Ṣadr al-Shahīd; Munir Ahmad Mughal

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