Abū Shujāʿ Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn (or al-Ḥasan) b. Aḥmad al-Iṣfahānī al-ʿAbbādī, was a Shāfiʿī jurist and author of a renowned compendium on Shāfiʿī legal practice. Not much is known about Abū Shujāʿ’s life, except that he was born in 433/1041–2 in Basra. His father came from ʿAbb…
