At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
EducationSpirituality and Sufism
Summary
Fatima bint Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman, known as al-Shahda, daughter of Quraymizan, the Hanafi woman of Aleppo, a virtuous and righteous shaykha, and shaykha of both the Adiliyya and Dajajiyya Sufi lodges. 2.
Copyist and worshipper
She had a fine hand and copied many books. She had an expansive way of speaking, abstinence and austerity, and was constant in prayer even during illness. She was born on the fourth of Muharram 878 AH. She was married to Shaykh Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Mir Jamal al-Din ibn Ali Darwish al-Ardabili al-Shafi'i, resident of the Ruwahiyya madrasa in Aleppo, whose grandfather was said to be the first to comment on al-Misbah. She said: "From this husband of mine I took knowledge, and he used to say: God gave me possession of thirty-six sciences." 1.
Her death
She died in 966 AH and asked that her prayer rug be buried with her. Ibn al-Hanbali said: "I have found witnesses to her funeral and to those who carried her bier." 3.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 347-348
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 347
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 348
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islam.museum contributors. “Fatima bint Quraymizan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatima-bint-quraymizan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.