Al-Ḫaṣṣāf
Al-Ḫaṣṣāf
was a Hanafite law scholar at the court of the 14th Abbasid Caliph al-Muhtadi. He is the author of a seminal work on Qādī, known as أدب القاضي Adab al-qādī. A commentary on the work was written by al-Jaṣṣās in the 10th century.
An English translation was published by G. P. Verbit in 2008.
Al-Ḫaṣṣāf is also the author of a Kitāb al-ḥiyal wa-l-maḫārij, a work on legalistic trickery or ḥiyal, and a kitāb aḥkām al-awqāf, on religious institutions or waqf.Editions
- al-Khaṣṣāf, Adab al-qāḍī, ed. Farḥāt Ziyāda
- Abubakar Ahmad Ibn ‘Amr al-Khassaf, Kitab Ahkam al-Awqaf
