Ibn Farhun


Ibn Farḥūn al-Mālikīfull name; Ibrāhīm b. ‘Alī b. M. Ibn Farḥūn, Burhān al-Dīn al-Ya’marī al-Andalusī al-Mālikī was an Arab Mālikī faqīh of Medina. born into a prominent Arab family that traced its descent to Quraysh. He traveled to Egypt, Levant and Jerusalem. In 1390 he returned to Medina, where he professed adherence to Maliki Islam and became qāḍa. His principal biographer, Aḥmad Bābā attributes eight books to him. Only two MSS have been published, while three are lost.

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