Muhammad al-Shaybani

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī
Personal life
Born749
Died805 (aged 5556)
Shahr-e-Ray, Abbasid Caliphate
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionAbbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)Islamic Jurisprudence
Notable idea(s)Evolution of Islamic Jurisprudence
Religious life
ReligionIslam
JurisprudenceHanafi
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 805), known as Imam Muhammad, the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab Muslim jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (later being the eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence), Malik ibn Anas and Abu Yusuf.