Ibn bint al-A'azz

Abdel Wahhab bin Khalaf bin Badr bin bint al-A'azz Tag al-Din al-Qadi (Egyptian Arabic: عبد الوهاب بن خلف بن بدر بن بنت الأعز تاج الدين القاضي), commonly known as Ibn bint al-A'azz (1207/8 AD – 1267 AD | 604 AH – 665 AH) was an Egyptian vizier of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, a judge and a Shafi’i scholar.

[1][2][3] He was born at the beginning of Rajab in 604 AH, and he heard from Jaafar al-Hamdhani and read Sunan Abu Dawood to al-Hafiz Zaki al-Din, and he narrated it.

[1][2][3] He held the position of Qadi al-Qoudah (judge of judges/chief justice) in the lands of Egypt, the vizier, theorizing, and teaching of Qubba al-Shafi’i, and al-Salihiyya, oratory, and sheikhdom.

Then he was assigned the position of Qadi al-Qoudah after Ibn Abd al-Salam dismissed himself, and he was delegated to teach the Salihiyya school when he fell ill, when al-Zahir Baybars asked Ibn Abd al-Salam to appoint one of his sons, he said: “There is no one among them who is fit for that.

This school belongs to Judge Tag al-Din Ibn Bint al-A'azz.”[1]Ibn bint al-A'azz had famous situations in the judiciary with al-Zahir Baybars, who made the judges four according to the sects because of this in Egypt in the year 663 AH, and in the Levant in the year 664 AH, and Tag al-Din died in Cairo, Egypt on the night of the twenty-seventh of the month of Rajab in 1267 AD (665 AH).