Abu al-Walid al-Baji

Abu al-Walid al-Baji (or Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa`d or Sa`dun ibn Ayyub, al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujaybi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Baji al-Tamimi al-Dhahabi al-Maliki) (c. 1013–c. 1081) was a famous Maliki scholar and poet from Beja, Al-Andalus.[5]

Abu al-Walid al-Baji
Personal
Born403/1013[1]
Badajoz[2]
Died474/1081[3]
Almeria[4]
ReligionIslam
RegionAl-Andalus
DenominationSunni Islam
JurisprudenceMaliki
CreedAthari

Al-Baji worked at various times as a watchman and a goldsmith to support himself. He was a contemporary of the jurist Ibn Hazm. He died in 1081.

Bibliography

By Abu al-Walid al-Baji:

  • Al-Tasdid ila Ma`rifa al-Tawhid
  • Sunan al-Minhaj
  • Tartib al-Hajj
  • Ihkam al-Fusul fi Ahkam al-Usul
  • al-Ta`dil wa al-Tajrih li man Kharraja `anhu al-Bukhari fi al-Sahih
  • Sharh al-Muwatta' in two versions: al-Istifa' and its abridgment al-Muntaqa
  • Sunan al-Salihin
  • Tahqiq al-madhhab. Ed. Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri. Riyadh: 1983.[6]

References
  1. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  2. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  3. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  4. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  5. The biographical dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, Volume 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, p. 204
  6. Maribel Fierro, "Heresy in al-Andalus." Taken from The Legacy of Muslim Spain, pg. 905. Ed. Salma Jayyusi. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1994.


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