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,
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
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
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Hanafis
10th-century deaths
10th-century jurists
Mu'tazilites