Ibn al-Mughallis

Abdallāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad , better known as Ibn al-Mughallis , was a medieval Arab Muslim theologian and jurist.

Life He was the son of the Hadith-scholar Ahmad ibn Muhammad Al-Mughallis Al-Baghdadi.

Ibn al-Mughallis was a student of al-Tabari. 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.

Ibn al-Mughallis later moved west, settling down in the Iberian Peninsula in what was then Islamic Spain. He died in the year 324 according to the Islamic calendar, corresponding to 936 on the Gregorian calendar.

Legacy Ibn al-Mughallis was a foremost jurist of the Zahirite school of Islamic law, and Zahirite jurisprudence was said to have become popular throughout the Muslim world due to his efforts.

Ibn al-Mughallis was supposedly instrumental in the removal of the Arab Banu 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. Ibn al-Mughallis, despite himself being an Arab, supported the Muslim Basque sayyid Bahlul Ibn Marzuq against the tribe's domination in Al-Andalus.

According to Ibn al-Nadim, he was famous for writing a systematic refutation of the rival Shafi'ite school of law.