Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Yamān al-Samarqandi () was a

Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Mu ...

Hanafi The Hanafi school or Hanafism is the oldest and largest Madhhab, school of Islamic jurisprudence out of the four schools within Sunni Islam. It developed from the teachings of the Faqīh, jurist and theologian Abu Hanifa (), who systemised the ...

scholar from

Samarqand Samarkand ( ; Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level ...

, who combined jurisprudence and theology. He paved the way for his compatriot

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (; 853–944) was a Hanafi jurist and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of kalam in Sunnism. He got his from Māturīd, a district in Samarkand. His works include , a classic exegesis of the Qur'a ...

(d. 333/944). He opposed the emerging

Karramiyya Karramiyya () was a Hanafi- Mujassim- Murji'ah sect in Islam which flourished in the central and eastern parts of the Islamic worlds, and especially in the Iranian regions, from the 9th century until the Mongol invasions in the 13th century. The ...

, an anthropomorphist sect.

Works

The sources mention the titles of four of his works: * ''Kitab al-Anwar''. * ''Kitab al-I'tisam'', was simply dedicated to

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

. * ''Kitab al-Radd 'ala al-Karramiyya, a refutation of the Karramites (al-Karramiyya). * ''Kitab Ma'alim al-Din'' ('The Lineaments of the Faith'), the title of the book would seem to present the possibility of directly accessing

theological Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of an ...

discussions. But a look at the manuscript shows that the theme of the text is completely different. It is confined strictly to argumentation on questions of law, without a single word on theology. There is a manuscript of this book in

Mashhad Mashhad ( ; ), historically also known as Mashad, Meshhed, or Meshed in English, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. ...

Death

Abu Bakr died in the year 268/881–2 after presumably spending his entire life in his hometown of

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{{Authority control Hanafi fiqh scholars Hanafis Maturidis Hadith scholars 9th-century Muslim theologians People from Samarkand Salaf Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 881 deaths 882 deaths

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Death

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