Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn al-Qattan al-Fasi (died 1231) was an

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, a hadith scholar and one of the leading intellectuals of the time of the Almohad dynasty. He was born in Cordoba and lived in

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. He is the author of ''Kitab al-nazar fi ahkam al-nazar bi-hassat al-basar'' and ''Bayan al-Wahm wa al-iham al-waqi'in fi kitab al-ahkam''.ed. al-Huasayn Ayat Said, 5 vols (Riad: Dar al-Tayba, 1997 ref. in:Jonathan A. C. Brown, ''The canonization of al-Bukhārī'', BRILL, 2007, passim

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn Qattan, Ali Hadith scholars 1231 deaths People from Córdoba, Spain Year of birth unknown 13th-century jurists Almohad scholars