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- Ibn Ḥamdān, Aḥmad (d. Cairo, 695/1295).
192 citations, of al-Riʿāya al-kubrā (The Greater Consideration) and
al-ṣughrā (The Lesser Consideration). For biographical information,
see Laoust, Califat, pp. 124–125.
- Ibn Abī ʿUmar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (d. Damascus, 682/1283).
141 citations as al-Shāriḥ (the Commentator) or of al-Sharḥ al-kabīr
(The Great Commentary on Ibn Qudāma, al-Muqniʿ). For biographi-
cal information, see Laoust, Bahrides, pp. 40–41.
- Ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad (d. Baghdad, 241/855).
135 citations, of which 51 (38 percent) with multiple, contradictory
versions (riwāyāt) of what Ibn Ḥanbal said. For more on his jurispru-
dence, see Melchert, Christopher: Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Oxford 2006,
chapter 3.
- al-Majd, Majd al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbd Allāh
(d. Harran, 652/1254?).
129 citations, of al-Muḥarrar (The Clarifier). For biographical infor-
mation, see Laoust, Califat, p. 126.
- al-Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā b. al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn
(d. Baghdad, 458/1065).
111 citations, of al-Mujarrad (The Stripped Down) more than any oth-
er work but usually as al-Qāḍī. For more biographical information,
see Laoust, Califat, pp. 96–98.
- Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Kalwadhānī, Maḥfūẓ b. Aḥmad
(d. Baghdad, 510/1116).
109 citations, of al-Hidāya (The Guidance), al-Intiṣār (Giving Victo-
ry), etc. For biographical information, see Laoust, Califat, pp. 102–103.
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