Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Baṣrī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Schwarb, Gregor M.
Leiden
Brill
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Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Baṣrī al-Kāghadhī (d. 369/980) was a Ḥanafī jurist and eminent theologian of the Bahshamī school of the Basran Muʿtazila in Baghdad. 1. His life He was born in Basra between 289/902 and 293/906. (The year 308/920-1, given for his birth in the Fihrist , 222, is most likely erroneous.) He began his studies in the city of his birth under the tutelage of Abū l-Qāsim b. Sahlawayh, a student of Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī ( Fihrist ,