Yahya ibn Aktham

Yahya ibn Aktham
يحيى بن أكثم
Judge (Qadi) of Basra
In office
817 or 818  825
Caliph: al-Ma'mun
Chief Judge of the Abbasid Caliphate
In office
825  833
Caliph: al-Ma'mun
Succeeded byAhmad ibn Abi Du'ad
Chief Judge of the Abbasid Caliphate
In office
851  854
Caliph: al-Mutawakkil
Succeeded byJa'far ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Ja'far al-Hashimi
Personal life
Born
Merv, Abbasid Caliphate
DiedApril 857
Al-Rabadha, Abbasid Caliphate (now Saudi Arabia)
ParentAktham
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionAbbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)Islamic jurisprudence
Known forParticipation in al-Ma'mun's campaign against the Byzantines and was put in command of a raiding party which set out from Tyana in 831
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Muslim leader

Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Aktham (Arabic: أبو محمد يحيى بن أكثم, died 857) was a ninth century Arab Islamic jurist. He twice served as the chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate, from ca. 825 to 833 and 851 to 854.