Abu Ishaq al-Fazari
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Abū Ishāq al-Fazārī | |
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| Personal life | |
| Died | 188 H |
| Main interest(s) | History, Hadith, Fiqh |
| Occupation | Islamic Scholar |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Awza'i |
| Muslim leader | |
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Abū Ishāq al-Fazārī, he was Ibrahīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith, Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, (إبراهيم بن محمد بن الحارث, أبو إسحاق الفزاري) (d. ca. 804), an Islamic historian, traditionalist and jurist of Iraqi descent.[1]
Al-Fazārī received his training first in Kufa, where his ancestors, the Banū Fazāra,[2] originated. He later moved to Baghdad and Damascus, before finally settling in Mopsuestia;[3] at one of the frontier stations to the Byzantine Empire, where he mainly deals with the organization of Islamic foreign and martial law (siyar) according to the teachings of his master al-Awzā'ī. He also acted as legal advisor to Hārūn ar-Rashīd on war-related issues.[4] al-Mizzī, says he studied under more than 80 teachers. In Mopsuestia, whose ribat was expanded at the beginning of the eighth-century and inhabited by Muslim troops,[5] he always had a large circle of pupils. The scholars Ibn 'Asākir and Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalānī report in their biographies that he instructed the Ribatians, taught them the Sunnah and the Enjoining good and forbidding wrong[6] Although a legal theorist, he also served in the military and his participation in a summer campaign in 772 is attested.[6] Ibn Sa'd mentions in his class book that he, like his teacher al-Awzā'ī, was among the scholars who stayed and worked in the Ribats.[7]
