Ibn Juzayy
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi (1321–1340) was an Arab Andalusian scholar (present day Spain) and writer of poetry, history, and law, born 721/1321, died in the battle of Rio Salado in 741/1340. His three sons, Aḥmad, Muḥammad and ʿAbdallāh, all worked in the same fields. He completed a summary of the travels of Ibn Battuta, as originally dictated by the latter.
Ibn Juzayy was taught by the philosopher Averroes in law. He wrote many religious works such as his Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah or "The Laws of Jurisprudence" a comparative manual of the jurisprudence of the five Sunni madhhabs (Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi`i, Hanbali, Dhahiri) with emphasis on the Maliki school. He is also famous for his tafsir of the Qur'an, and his book on legal theory "Aqrab al-Wusool `ala `Ilm al-Usool" or "The Nearest of Paths to the Knowledge of the Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence."