Al-Jaṣṣās (, 305 AH/917 AD - 370 AH/981 AD; full name ''Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī al-Jaṣṣāṣ'') was a

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

scholar, mostly known as the commentator of

Al-Ḫaṣṣāf 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 Caliph al-Muhtadi. He is the author of a seminal work on ...

's work on ''

Qādī A qadi (; ) is the magistrate or judge of a Sharia court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and auditing of public works. History The term '' was in use from ...

'' (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 Tafsir ( ; ) refers to an exegesis, or commentary, of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' (; plural: ). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, interpretation, context or commentary for clear understanding ...

'', ''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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Al-Jassas Hanafis 10th-century deaths 10th-century jurists Mu'tazilites