Abu Thawr

Abu Thawr Ibrahim bin Khalid al-Kalbi al-Baghdadi (764–854) was an early scholar of Islam. He was born in 170 AH.

Abu Thawr
أبو ثور
Personal
Born~170 H/ 764 CE
Died240 H/ 854 CE
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
SchoolShafi‘i / Ijtihad[1]
ProfessionFaqih, scholar
Muslim leader
TeacherAl-Shafi'i[2][3]
ProfessionFaqih, scholar

A personal school was built by the followers of Abu Thawr which disappeared by the 4th century Hijra.[4][5]

Notes

  1. Cook, Michael. "Magian cheese: an archaic problem in Islamic law." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 47.3 (1984): 449-467. "On the Sunni side, such a position is ascribed to Abu Thawr (d. 240),39 a Baghdadi lawyer who was in some sense a Shafi'ite"
  2. Williams, Wesley. "Aspects of the creed of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal: a study of Anthropomorphism in early Islamic discourse." International Journal of Middle East Studies 34.3 (2002): 441-463. "Abu Thawr (d. 854), a student of al-Shafi'i, stated..."
  3. Amin, Yasmin. "Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice." The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32.2 (2015): 135. "...such as those of the Shafi'i jurists Abu Thawr (d. 240/845 [sic]) and al-Muzani (d. 246/878)."
  4. Dutton, Yasin. "The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9-10th Centuries CE." (1999): 164-168. " they are 'to be classified amongst the schools of law that died out over time, of which the most renowned are those of Abu Thawr, Dawud al-Zahiri, and al-Tabari'"
  5. Ali, Abdullah bin Hamid. "Scholarly consensus: Ijma ‘: between use and misuse." Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12.2 (2010): 92-113.

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