At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Burhan al-Din al-Abnasi, shaykh of Egypt who raised students; trained under al-Mughaltay, studied fiqh under al-Asnawi and al-Manfaluti, and built a zawiya at al-Maqs outside Cairo where he did good to students and arranged their provisions till most of Cairo's seekers were his pupils — Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani studied under him. 2
Appointed, then gone
Appointed to the judgeship, he hid and opened the mushaf — and the prison verse came out; he made the hajj and died returning, in Muharram at 'Uyun al-Qasab near the Ayla pass, mourned by Zayn al-Din al-'Iraqi. 2
Connections
- Died in
- Ayla
People and things also explored
The Treaty of Ayla· The Prophet's letter of safe-conduct to Yuhanna ibn Ru'ba and the people of Ayla· Ayla
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 10-11
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 10-11, 21-22
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Burhan al-Din al-Abnasi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/burhan-al-din-al-abnasi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.