Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi
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Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi was an 11th-century Hanafi jurist and theologian from Transoxiana, renowned as one of the foremost authorities in Islamic jurisprudence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi canonical | 1 |
| al-Sarakhsi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6517773 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi Context triple: [al-Mabsut, author, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi]
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A.
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh was a prominent medieval Islamic scholar and jurist associated with the renowned Nizamiyya of Baghdad.
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B.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah was a prominent 13th-century Kurdish Muslim hadith scholar and jurist best known for his foundational work "Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah" on hadith sciences.
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C.
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini was a prominent 10th-century Islamic theologian and Shafi'i jurist known for his influential role in the development of Ash'ari kalam.
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D.
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was an influential 11th-century Shafi'i jurist and theologian, renowned for his legal writings and for shaping Sunni scholarship in Baghdad.
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E.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi Target entity description: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi was an 11th-century Hanafi jurist and theologian from Transoxiana, renowned as one of the foremost authorities in Islamic jurisprudence.
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A.
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh was a prominent medieval Islamic scholar and jurist associated with the renowned Nizamiyya of Baghdad.
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B.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah was a prominent 13th-century Kurdish Muslim hadith scholar and jurist best known for his foundational work "Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah" on hadith sciences.
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C.
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini was a prominent 10th-century Islamic theologian and Shafi'i jurist known for his influential role in the development of Ash'ari kalam.
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D.
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was an influential 11th-century Shafi'i jurist and theologian, renowned for his legal writings and for shaping Sunni scholarship in Baghdad.
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E.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hanafi jurist
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Islamic jurist ⓘ maturidi theologian ⓘ mujtahid ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 11th century ⓘ |
| denomination | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| doctrine | Maturidi creed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | al-Sarakhsi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic theology
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fiqh ⓘ usul al-fiqh ⓘ |
| genre |
Islamic legal literature
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usul al-fiqh literature ⓘ |
| geographicOrigin | Transoxiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Hanafi jurists
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later Maturidi theologians ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Abu Hanifa
NERFINISHED
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Abu Yusuf NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad al-Shaybani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| juridicalRank | authority in Hanafi madhhab ⓘ |
| jurisprudence | Hanafi fiqh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comprehensive exposition of Hanafi jurisprudence
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systematization of usul al-fiqh in the Hanafi school ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalSchool | Hanafi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madhhab | Hanafi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability | foremost authority in Hanafi jurisprudence ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Usul al-Sarakhsi
NERFINISHED
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al-Mabsut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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jurist ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| region |
Central Asia
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Transoxiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| theologicalSchool | Maturidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradition | Sunni ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Islamic legal theory
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legal methodology ⓘ substantive Hanafi law ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi Description of subject: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi was an 11th-century Hanafi jurist and theologian from Transoxiana, renowned as one of the foremost authorities in Islamic jurisprudence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
al-Mabsut
subject surface form:
al-Mabsut
this entity surface form:
al-Sarakhsi