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Ibrāhīm ibn al-Jarrāḥ

إبراهيم بن الجراح

Student of Abū Yūsuf and judge in Egypt, whose transmission the source describes as weak.

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ومن أصحاب أبي يوسف أيضا إبراهيم بن الجراح ولى القضاء بمصر وهو لين في روايته وكان أبو يوسف يقول له تأخذ المسألة من عندنا طرية وتردها مكحلة وقد كتب الأمالي عنه علي بن الجعد وغيره

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Another companion of Abū Yūsuf was Ibrāhīm ibn al-Jarrāḥ. He held judicial office in Egypt and was weak in his transmission. Abū Yūsuf used to tell him, “You take a legal question from us fresh and return it with kohl applied.” ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd and others recorded dictated lessons from him.

Sources: Al-Afghānī · p. 163 / Baktāsh · pp. 268–269

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