Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Asabi al-Salami

الأصابي، أحمد بن عبد الله السلمي

A scholar of Zabid in Yemen, named after Dhu Asab near Zabid, who studied his sciences in Zabid under Shaykh Abdallah al-Mizjaji.

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Scholar
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Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Arabia
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Scripture and its sciences

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موجز

أحمد بن عبد الله السلمي، لقبه شهاب الدين ونسبته الأصابي، عالم من زبيد في اليمن. نسبته إلى ذي أصاب قرب زبيد، ودرس علومه في زبيد على الشيخ عبد الله المزجاجي. 1

تذكر الموسوعة أنه كان حياً سنة 1118هـ (1706م). ويحتاج تاريخ ولادته ووفاته وآثاره إلى مصدر إضافي.

People and things also explored

The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Asabi al-Salami”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-abdallah-al-asabi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.