At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
The author of the Burda
Sharaf al-Din al-Busiri, Muhammad ibn Saʿid ibn Hammad, born in Dalas, originally of Maghribi descent and raised in Busir. He was born on Tuesday, the first of Shawwal 608 AH in the region of Dalas, and excelled in verse 1.
His standing among his contemporaries
The hafiz Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, as al-Suyuti reports it in "Husn al-Muhadara," said that he was better than al-Jazzar and al-Warraq, two of the best-known poets of his age in Egypt 1.
From Ibn al-ʿImad's Shadharat al-Dhahab, the biographies of 695 AH: a readable text produced by the scanning process named in the Arabic source ("Abel Vigen"), whose passages were checked and whose entries were selected for the museum.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 752
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Busiri, author of the Burda”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-busiri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.