al-Khalili Abu Ya'la al-Khalil ibn Abd Allah

الخليلي أبو يعلى الخليل بن عبد الله

c. 980 CE · 370 AH – 1055 CE · 446 AH

Hadith scholar, born about 370 AH (980 CE, estimated) and died 446 AH (1055 CE).

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: أبو العلاء المعري · al-Tanukhi al-Qadi Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn al-Muhsin · Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Al-Ifliili, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad · Ibn Hayyan, Abu Marwan

Scripture and its sciences

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موجز

أبو يعلى الخليل بن عبد الله الخليلي، محدّث. تُقدَّر ولادته نحو سنة 370هـ (980م)، وتوفي سنة 446هـ (1055م)، بحسب «موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء». 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-Khalili Abu Ya'la al-Khalil ibn Abd Allah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khalili-abu-ya-la-al-khalil-ibn-abd-allah/. 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.