Husayn ibn Abi al-Abbas al-Ajdabi
الأجدابي حسين بن أبي العباس
1040 CE · 432 AH
Maliki jurist, reciter and hadith transmitter of Qayrawan, originally from Ajdabiya in Libya, who studied with the masters of the Qayrawan school.
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- JuristTradition
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Husayn ibn Abi al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ajdabi, Abu Abd Allah. A Maliki jurist, reader of the Qur'an and transmitter of hadith from Kairouan, whose origin was in Ajdabiya in Libya. He took from the leading figures of the Kairouan school. He died in 432 AH (1040 CE). 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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.289-291
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