Haydarah bin `Umar, Qadi `Abd Allah bin Muhammad, and legal scholar `Ali bin Khalid Al-Basri.[1]
Abdallāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (Arabic: عبد الله أحمد بن محمد), better known as Ibn al-Mughallis (Arabic: ابن المغلس), was a medieval Arab[2] Muslim theologian and jurist.[3][4]
He was the son of the Hadith-scholar Ahmad ibn Muhammad Al-Mughallis Al-Baghdadi.[5]
Ibn al-Mughallis was a student of al-Tabari.[6] Ibn al-Mughallis praised his teacher extensively, referring to him as possessing both the greatest understanding and concern for scholarship of any theologian Ibn al-Mughallis had known.[3] In particular, Ibn al-Mughallis considered Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings to be one of the greatest books written at that point in history.[4] Ibn al-Mughallis was also a student of Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri, whose body he ritually washed as part of the Islamic funeral rite.[7][8]
Ibn al-Mughallis was supposedly instrumental in the removal of the ArabBanu Salama tribe from Huesca on the Upper March (Arabic: Al-Tagr al-A'la) of Al-Andalus. While initially hesitant when asked to pray to God for the defeat of Banu Salama, he eventually relented after witnessing a particularly revolting act of injustice.[12][13] Ibn al-Mughallis, despite himself being an Arab, supported the MuslimBasquesayyidBahlul Ibn Marzuq against the tribe's domination in Al-Andalus.[14][15]
According to Ibn al-Nadim, he was famous for writing a systematic refutation of the rival Shafi'ite school of law.[9] Due to Ibn al-Mughallis' poor political and personal relations with AbbasidvizierAli ibn Isa al-Jarrah, and Jarrah's strong relations with clerics of the Shafi'ite rite, the Zahirite school fell out of favor with the government in Baghdad.[16]
^Mohammad Sharif Khan and Mohammad Anwar Saleem, Muslim Philosophy And Philosophers, pg. 34. New Delhi: Ashish Publishing House, 1994.
^The Islamic school of law - evolution, devolution, and progress, pg. 119. Eds. Rudolph Peters and Frank E. Vogel. Cambridge: Harvard Law School, 2005.
^Manuela Marin, "Muslim Religious Practices in al-Andalus (2nd/8th-4th/10th Centuries)."Taken from The Legacy of Muslim Spain, pg. 888. Ed. Salma Jayyusi. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1994.
^Göran Larsson, Ibn García's Shuʻūbiyya Letter: Ethnic and Theological Tensions in Medieval al-Andalus, pg. 211. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2003. ISBN9004127402
^Monique Bernards and John Nawas, Patronate And Patronage in Early And Classical Islam, pg. 235.Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2005.
