Al-Ḥusayn b. Masʿūd al-Baghawī, Maʿālim al-tanzīl. Volume 8, page 87.

In this excerpt from his work of Quranic exegesis, Baghawī claims, on the authority of Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab and Ḍaḥḥāk, that God’s epithet al-muhayminis interpreted by some to mean “the judge” (al-qāḍī), and he reports that some even consider al-qāḍīone of the beautiful names of God. In his chapter comparing earthly justice with heavenly justice in the early Islamic imagination in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Christian Lange uses this source to argue that although God is not referred to as qāḍīin the Quran, medieval exegetes regularly identified Him as such in their exegetical works. Lange notes, however, that the inclusion of al-qāḍīamong the divine names did not become standard.

This source is part of the Online Companion to the book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, ed. Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale(ILSP/HUP 2017)—a collection of primary sources and other material used in and related to the book.

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