At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith · mufassir
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Ra'sani, the Hanbali muhaddith and exegete; he heard al-Kindi at Damascus and Ibn Munina at Baghdad, composed a good tafsir, and was shaykh of the Jazira in his time in knowledge, merit and stature. 1
His works
Ibn Rajab said he read fiqh under Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Din, memorised his al-Muqni' and mastered the rational and transmitted sciences; al-Dhahabi counted him among the huffaz. He held the shaykhdom of Dar al-Hadith at Mosul with ample honour from its lord and the other kings of the Jazira; he composed a fine tafsir in four large volumes called Rumuz al-kunuz, and a book Misra' al-Husayn which the lord of Mosul obliged him to write — he recorded only what is sound of the killing and nothing else; he held fast to sunna and athar, and his verse was good. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
- Died in
- Mosul
People and things also explored
Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Battle of al-Khazir· Conquest of Mosul· death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· death of Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd — Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī II succeeds in Mosul· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil marches on Mosul and returns· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil besieges Mosul
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 529-530
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Ras'ani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-rasani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.