The Epistle on Legal Theory

Glossary of Names and Terms

٤٦١ 461 Glossary of Names and Terms ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbbās Late Companion, teacher of a generation of famous Meccan jurists (d. 68/687–88). ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm Great-grandson of ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm (q.v.), Medinese legal authority (d. 130/747–48 or 135/752– 53). ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Labīd (al-Thaqafī, Abū l-Mughīrah) Medinese legal authority (d. 136/754 or shortly thereafter). ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Qatādah Son of Abū Qatādah (q.v.), Medinese legal authority (d. between 86/705 and 96/715). ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Salamah (al-Mājishūn) Medinese legal authority (d. 106/724–25). ʿAbdallāh ibn Bābāh (or possibly Bābīh) Meccan legal authority, transmitted from Ibn ʿUmar (q.v.), among others. ʿAbdallāh ibn Dīnār Medinese legal authority (d. 127/744–45). ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿIṣmah (al-Jushamī l-Ḥimyarī) Probably Meccan, transmitted to, among others, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ (q.v.). ʿAbdallāh ibn Kathīr (ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn al-Wadāʿah) (Not to be confused with ʿAbdallāh ibn Kathīr al-Dārī, who was a Meccan authority on the Qurʾan, or with the famous Damascene Qurʾan scholar ʿAbdallāh ibn Kathīr), Meccan transmitter of a hadith-report concerning advance payment (salam) (d. after 120/738). ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd Late Companion, important source for early Iraqi legal authorities (d. 32/652–53). ʿAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣayfī (Abū Yaḥyā l-Makhzūmī) Transmitted from Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām (q.v.). ٤٦٢ 462 Glossary of Names and Terms ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ Great-great-grandson of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (q.v.), brother of ʿUbaydallāh ibn ʿUmar (q.v.), Medinese legal authority (d. 171–2/787–89). ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUmar (ibn al-Khaṭṭāb) Son of the caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (q.v.) (d. 74/692). ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUtbah Nephew of ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd (q.v.), Medinese, then Kufan legal authority (d. between 73/692 and 74/694). ʿAbdallāh ibn Wāqid ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUmar Grandson of ʿAbdallāh Ibn ʿUmar (q.v.), Medinese legal authority (d. 119/737). ʿAbdallāh ibn Yazīd Medinese legal authority who transmitted to Mālik ibn Anas (q.v.), among others (d. 148/765). ʿAbdallāh ibn Zayd (ibn Aslam) Son of Zayd ibn Aslam, Medinese legal authority (d. 164/780–81). ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣunābiḥī Companion (possibly confused in some sources with Abū ʿAbdallāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUsaylah al-Ṣunābiḥī, who was an associate of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (q.v.) and who also seems to have met the Prophet). ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad (ibn ʿUbayd al-Darāwardī) Medinese legal authority , teacher of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 187/802 or 189/804). ʿAbd al-Majīd (ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād, Abū ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd) Meccan legal authority, teacher of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 206/821). ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr Kufan judge (d. 136/753–54). ʿAbd Manāf Subgroup of the tribe of Quraysh (q.v.) that comprises several clans including that of the Prophet. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd Son of the Companion ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd (q.v.). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Qārī Possibly a late Companion, Medinese legal authority, said to have been in charge of the treasury (bayt al-māl) for ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (q.v.) (d. 85/704 or 88/707). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Saʿīd Son of the Companion Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī (q.v.). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf Important early Meccan Companion. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm (al-Ashʿarī) Identified by al-Shāfiʿī as a Basran legal authority, but said elsewhere to have been active in Syria and Palestine, and to have visited Egypt (d. 78/697–98). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik Medinese legal authority (d. between 96/715 and 125/743). ٤٦٣ 463 Glossary of Names and Terms ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim (ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr) Great-grandson of...