al-Asadi, Ahmad al-Sammaki

الأسدي أحمد السمكي

1625 CE · 1035 AH – 1656 CE · 1066 AH

Meccan scholar of the eleventh century AH who grew up in Mecca.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Arabia
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The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi · Al-Haskafi, Muhammad ibn Ali · al-Buhuti Mansur ibn Yunus · Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal · إبراهيم الأول

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

أحمد بن محمد الأسدي، المعروف بالشيخ السمكي المكي، عالم مكي من القرن الحادي عشر الهجري، نشأ في مكة المكرمة. وُلد نحو سنة 1035هـ (1625م) وتوفي نحو سنة 1066هـ (1656م). التاريخان مسندان إلى مصدر واحد ويحتاجان إلى مصدر إضافي. 1

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. “al-Asadi, Ahmad al-Sammaki”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-asadi-ahmad-al-sammaki/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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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.