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Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān

أبو طاهر محمد بن محمد بن سفيان

Student of Abū Khāzim and teacher associated with al-Karkhī’s generation; judge in Syria.

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ومن المتأخرين عن هذه الطبقة أبو خازم عبد الحميد بن عبد العزيز القاضي أصله من البصرة وأخذ العلم عن بكر العمي وعن الشيوخ البصريين وهو جليل القدر ولى القضاء بالشام والكوفة والكرخ من مدينة السلام وكان عبيد الله بن سليمان خاطبه في بيع ضيعة ليتيم تجاور بعض ضياعه فكتب إليه إن رأى الوزير أعزه الله أن يجعلني أحد رجلين إما رجلا صين الحكم به أو صين الحكم عنه والسلام وعنه أخذ الفقهاء أبو جعفر الطحاوي وأبو طاهر الدباس وقد لقيه أبو الحسن الكرخي وحضر مجلسه وكان منقطعا إلى البرذعي

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Among those later than this generation was the judge Abū Khāzim ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, originally from Basra. He learned from Bakr al-ʿAmmī and the Basran shaykhs. He was of great standing and held judicial office in Syria, Kufa, and al-Karkh in Madīnat al-Salām. ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Sulaymān addressed him about selling an orphan's estate adjoining some of his estates. He wrote to him: “If the minister, may God strengthen him, sees fit, let him make me one of two men: either a man by whom judicial office is protected, or a man from whom judicial office is protected. Peace.” The jurists Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī and Abū Ṭāhir al-Dabbās learned from him. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī met him and attended his sessions, while being closely attached to al-Bardhaʿī.

Sources: Al-Afghānī · p. 165 / Baktāsh · pp. 273–274

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Minister’s name

Al-Afghānī names عبد الله بن سليمان; Baktāsh names عبيد الله بن سليمان and records the shorter reading in other witnesses.

Al-Afghānī · 1985

عبد الله بن سليمان

Baktāsh · 2023

عبيد الله بن سليمان

  • Al-Afghānī edition, pp. 165.
  • Baktāsh edition, pp. 273, 274.

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