Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Ya'qub Yusuf b. Abi Bakr b. Muhammad al-Sakkaki, author of Miftah al-'ulum; a Hanafi, great imam, brilliant scholar, deep-diving in grammar, morphology, the sciences of meaning and expression, prosody and verse; he took from Shaykh al-Islam Mahmud b. Sa'id al-Harithi and from Sadid b. Muhammad al-Hannati; Mukhtar b. Mahmud al-Zahid, author of the Qunya, took kalam from him. He died in 626. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 122
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki, author of al-Miftah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sakkaki/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.