Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya

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Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad · Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa · Bayazid al-Bistami · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali

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Place in the story

ScholarTradition

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People and things also explored

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada· Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali· Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad· Al-Ansari al-Saraqusti, Isma'il ibn Khalaf· Al-Balawi, Ahmad ibn Ali

Sources

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. “Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-yahya-tha-lab/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi

Born in Baghdad, he was drawn to literature and the study of Arabic from childhood. He wrote Khizanat al-Adab.