Al-Tabari, author of al-Uda (Husayn ibn Ali)

صاحب العدة الطبري (الحسين بن علي)

Al-Husayn ibn Ali (may God be pleased with him) ibn al-Husayn, Abu Abd Allah, al-Tabari, a Shafi'i jurist who settled in Mecca and was its hadith scholar and jurist; he was called Imam al-Haramayn. He studied in Khurasan under Nasir al-Umari, in Baghdad under the judge Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari, and then stayed with Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi until he excelled in the school and the disputes. He taught at the Nizamiyya in Baghdad. Ismail al-Taymi, al-Silafi and Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi related from him. His book al-Uda is a commentary on al-Ibana of al-Furani. The header gives his death as 498 AH and his birth as 418 AH. ¹