Assad ibn Al-Furat

Assad ibn Al-Furat (rear RTL أسدبنفرات), also spelled Asad ibn Al-Furat , born in 759 with Kairouan in Tunisia (in the past Ifriqiya) and deceased in 828 in Sicily, is a Juriste and Théologie Tunisian N.

Large scientist malékite carrying the title of Cadi, it belongs to the “successors of the successors” of the Sahaba (companions of the Prophète Mahomet). Its family is originating in Harran (Mésopotamie) but his/her father had then emigrated in Tunisia. The name Assad means “Lion” and its complete name “Lion wire of the Euphrate”.

Assad studies the right to Médine near Mâlik ibn Anas, founder of the legal school malékite, then with Kufa near a pupil of Abu Hanifa, the founder of the legal tradition hanéfite. It summarizes its legal designs in Assadiyya which will have a great influence in Ifriqiya.

On its return in Ifriqiya, Assad is named cadi of Kairouan by the Aghlabides. It enters in conflict with Ziadet-Allah Ier (816 - 838) to which it reproaches its too luxurious lifestyle. It is then named chief of a forwarding against the Byzantine Sicily. Assad, with the Arab troops, arrives to Sicily in 827. After a victory over the Byzantine troops, the Moslem army arrives to the doors of Syracuse but cannot however not conquer the city. Assad dies there of the Peste.

As a hanéfite, Assad played an important role in the payments of conflicts between the malékites of Kairouan. It could strengthen the legal theory hanafite as bases Jurisprudence in Ifriqiya of Aghlabides. Although the rite malékite was born in Médine, Assad Ibn Al-Furat and Sahnun Ibn Sa' id, founder of the school malékite ifriqiyenne, knew to reformulate it in Kairouan.

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