Al-Layth ibn Sa'd

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Al-Layth ibn Sa'd
Personal
Born713 CE
Qalqashandah,
madh'hab
Muslim leader
Influenced by
  • Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri

Al-Layth ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fahmī al-Qalqashandī (

Islamic Jurisprudence. He was regarded as the main representative of an Egyptian tradition of law.[1]

He was born in 713 CE in Qalqashanda, a village in

Persian origin from Isfahan, and this in turn became a common reference for later writers, maintaining that his Arabic nisba was the result of familiar loyalty to Khalid ibn Thabit ibn Dhain Al-Fahmi.[2][3][4]
Despite being among the most famous of jurists at the time, his students did not write down his teachings and spread it like the students of another famous jurist of the time, Malik ibn Anas.[5]

He presided over the first trial of Elias of Heliopolis for apostasy in 779.[6]

According to

Maliki Madhhab school and al-Shafi'i own teacher.[7]

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