Abu Bakr al-Khassaf (,''Abu Bakr Al-Ḫaṣṣāf'' ) (died 874, full name ''Abu-Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Amru ash-Shaybani al-Khassaf'') was a Hanafite law scholar at the court of the 14th

Abbasid The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (; ) was the third caliphate to succeed the prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 C ...

Caliph

al-Muhtadi Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muhtadī bi-ʾLlāh (‎; – 21 June 870), better known by his regnal name al-Muhtadī bi-ʾLlāh (Arabic: , "Guided by God"), was the Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from ...

. He is the author of a seminal work on '' Qādī'', known as . A commentary on the work was written by al-Jaṣṣās in the 10th century. An English translation was published by G. P. Verbit in 2008. Al-Ḫaṣṣāf is also the author of a'' Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫārij'', a work on legalistic trickery or '' ḥiyal'', and a ''kitāb aḥkām al-awqāf'', on religious institutions or ''

waqf A (; , plural ), also called a (, plural or ), or ''mortmain'' property, is an Alienation (property law), inalienable charitable financial endowment, endowment under Sharia, Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot ...

''. The earliest development of this field is the ''Kitāb al-maḫārij fī l-ḥiyal'' ("book of evasion and trickery") by

Muhammad al-Shaybani Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī (; 749/50 – 805), known as Imam Muhammad, the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab Muslim Ulama, jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (later being the eponym o ...

(d. 805). A more comprehensive treatment is the ''Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫārij'' by Al-Khassaf.Schacht 1926, 218.

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)

References

* Peter C. Hennigan: ''al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874).''n: 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.''
In: ''Islamic Law and Society.'' Vol. 16 (2009), S. 280–302. *Tillier, Mathieu. (2009).
Les cadis d’Iraq et l’État abbasside (132/750-334/945)
'' Damascus: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2009. * Peter C Hennigan: ''The birth of a legal institution : the formation of the waqf in third-century A.H. Ḥanafī legal discourse. '' Brill, Leiden 2003, . * ''Ādāb al-Qāḍī : Islamic legal and judicial system''. Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Khaṣṣāf; ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Ṣadr al-Shahīd; Munir Ahmad Mughal * Abū Bakr Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAmr Ibn-Muhair al-Ḫaṣṣāf aš-Šaibānī: ''Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫāriǧ''. Ed. J. Schacht. Reprograf. Nachdr. der Ausg. Hannover 1923. Olms, Hildesheim 1968. *

Joseph Schacht Joseph Franz Schacht (, 15 March 1902 – 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar in the areas of Islamic law and hadith studies, whose ''Origins of M ...

(ed.): Das Kitāb al-hiial ual-mahāriǧ des Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muhair aš-Šaibānī-al-H̱aṣṣāf. Hannover, 1923 (Beiträge zur semitischen Philologie und Linguistik; 4) * Christopher Melchert: Religious Policies of the Caliphs from al-Mutawakkil to al-Muqtadir, A H 232-295/A D 847-908. Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1996), S. 316–342 {{DEFAULTSORT:Al-Hassaf 870s deaths People from Baghdad Courtiers from the Abbasid Caliphate Hanafi fiqh scholars 9th-century jurists 9th-century Arab people