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Abu Abdallah Ja'far ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Ja'far ibn Sulayman ibn Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله جعفر بن عبد الواحد بن جعفر بن سليمان بن علي الهاشمي) (died 871/2?) was a Chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate, from 854 to 863/4.

He was a minor member of the Abbasid dynasty, being a descendant of Sulayman ibn Ali, the uncle of the caliphs al-Saffah and al-Mansur. Although his jurisdictional background is obscure, he was appointed as chief judge (qadi al-qudat) by al-Mutawakkil in July 854 as a replacement for Yahya ibn Aktham. His tenure in office is notable for his participation in the Arab–Byzantine prisoner exchange of 856, during which al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Shawarib acted as his deputy in Samarra. He remained in office until 863 or 864, when he was dismissed and exiled to Basra after the general Wasif al-Turki accused him of engaging with the shakiriyya troops in a suspicious manner. He was eventually allowed to return to the capital, where in 866 he unsuccessfully attempted to settle a violent dispute between the Turkish and Maghariba army regiments. In 870 he led the prayers at the funeral of the caliph al-Muhtadi. He died in 871/2, or in 881/2 or 882/3 according to alternative accounts.

See also

• Al-Ḫaṣṣāf

Notes

1. Ibn Khallikan 1871, pp. 48, 49.
2. Ibn Hazm 1982, p. 34.
3. Melchert 1996, pp. 328, 329 n. 71; Melchert 1997, p. 46.
4. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 34: pp. 131-32; Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1265; Ibn Khallikan 1871, p. 48.
5. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 34: pp. 139-40; Al-Mas'udi 1896, p. 258.
6. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 35: pp. 14, 26 (describing the dismissal and exile as separate events); Melchert 1996, p. 331.
7. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 35: p. 140.
8. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 36: pp. 99, 105; Melchert 1996, p. 331.
9. Ibn Khallikan 1871, p. 49; Melchert 1997, p. 45; Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi 2001, p. 59.

References

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• Ibn Hazm, Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi (1982). Harun, 'Abd al-Salam Muhammad (ed.). Jamharat Ansab al-'Arab (in Arabic) (5th ed.). Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif.
• Ibn Khallikan, Shams al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad (1871). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary. Vol. IV. Trans. Baron Mac Guckin de Slane. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Thabit (2001). Ma'ruf, Bashshar Awwad (ed.). Tarikh Madinat al-Salam (in Arabic). Vol. 8. Beirut: Dar al-Gharb al-Islami.
• Al-Mas'udi, Ali ibn al-Husain (1896). Le livre de l'avertissement et de la revision (in French). Translated by Baron Carra de Vaux. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
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