ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD B. AL-YAMĀN AL-SAMARQANDĪ (d. 268/881), a Hanafite jurist about whose life the available sources furnish no information. It seems that he combined both feqh and kalām and that he paved the way for his famous compatriot Abū Manṣūr Mātorīdī (q.v., d. 333/1041). The sources mention the titles of four of his works: 1. al-Eʿteṣām (on Hadith), 2. al-Radd ʿalā al-Karrāmīya, 3. al-Anwār, and 4. Maʿālem al-dīn. Of the last, there is a copy in Mašhad.
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