القاضي النعمان  .. كتاب مائة أوائل من تراثنا ، الكاتب عبد الهادي حرصوني

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Muhammad bin that he was believed to be an Arab by people, he was Abu Hanifah al-Nu’man bin Mansur bin Ahmad bin Hayun al-Tamimi by origin, explicitly for his mother, and his name comes in Ismaili sources al-Nu’man without the title of Abu Hanifa, which we do not know is a reason for him and his popularity, as the Ismaili imams used to call him by the name of al-Nu’man only, and perhaps he was known by this The title in the past, then he abandoned it later, and discarded it in order not to confuse the matter, with Abu Hanifa Al-Numan, the owner of the Hanafi school, and we do not know the date of birth of Al-Qadi Al-Numan, and it is believed that that was between 283-291 AH, and we do not know the place of his birth, and perhaps he was in Kairouan, because his father He died in this city at a high age (one hundred four years). Some sources mention that al-Qadi al-Nu`man grew up at the beginning of his life as a Malikite, then later converted to Ismailia, and others mention that he converted from the Malikis to the Twelvers and then to the Ismailis. What is certain is that he was the greatest of all Ismaili da'wah men, the most fertile of them in production, and the most important of them in ideas.
And he continued to serve the imams until his death at the end of Jumada al-Thani 363 5/27 March 974 CE. Al-Qadi al-Nu’man fluctuated in the Fatimid positions since the beginning of his life, and this matter leads to the belief that his father was originally a preacher from among the Ismaili preachers, so the son found the paths prepared for him, so he first assumed the position of (the author of the news, then the librarian, then he became a judge, then a judge Al-Qudah, and Al-Qadi Al-Nu`man talks about his joining the Fatimid caliphate by saying: I served the Mahdi with Allah - from the last of his life nine years, months and days, and the Imam who is standing by the command of Allah after him during the days of his life in ending the news of the Presence to them in all the length of that period except for the fewest days, and at the same time he singled out At the service of Al-Mansur, then he devoted himself to the service of Al-Mu’izz, the fourth Fatimid caliph.In the early days of Al-Mansur, and while he was preoccupied with putting down the revolt of Abu Yazid Mukhaled Ibn Kidad, Judge Al-Nu’man was in Tripoli, working as a judge for it, and after eliminating this revolution and when Al-Mansur built his new capital “Sabra Al-Mansuriya Outside Kairouan, al-Qadi al-Nu`man summoned him, so he exalted his remembrance, elevated his status, and bestowed upon him many blessings, including if he were to describe him, he would cut off his heroism on the day he wanted to be mentioned.

And al-Mansur al-Nu`man lived as a judge of al-Mansuriyah, Kairouan, and all other African cities and their works, and al-Nu`man began to sit for the judiciary in the shed of the palace in al-Mansuriyah, then he moved to another spacious place where people could reach him and enable them to do what they wanted. And he followed, and for this he was blamed more than once for his indolence and lack of this. Judge Al-Nu'man's plan developed, and after a short time he became the chief judge of his strictness, and with the Fatimid caliphate
Al-Nu'man's fame did not come from his practice of judicial work, nor from his role that he occupied in life within the palaces of the caliphate during the African era and the beginning of Egypt, but it came because of the giant intellectual production he left us. It was said that he wrote more than forty books, some of which came in several volumes. We have reached about half of it, and the other half is still missing or hidden

At the head of Al-Nu’man’s books comes his book Da’a’im al-Islam with its interpretations, as it is the book of basic jurisprudence according to the Ismailis, then the book of Al-Iqtisar, and it can be considered an acronym for the pillars, and Judge Al-Nu’man goes in his jurisprudential works to claim that he relies on the heritage of Aal al-Bayt, especially the jurisprudence of Imam Jaafar al-Sadiq.

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Al-Nu`man wrote books related to the Ismaili school of thought, some of them on the principles of interpretation and explanations of some issues, and others came in presenting the position of the Ismailis and their thought among the Shiites and in confronting the Sunnis.

Among the most important books of Al-Nu’man is what contained historical material on the Ismaili movement and the Fatimid caliphate, such as the message of the inauguration of the call, councils and marches. Ayyam al-Mu'izz Li Din Allah, which is a very serious and important document containing a variety of important material for the researcher

In the history of the Fatimids, we note that Judge al-Nu`man always repeats in his writings that he wrote about