Ibn Akhi Rabi al-Sabbagh al-Kalabi

ابن أخي ربيع الصباغ الكلابي

930 CE · 318 AH

A scholar of Cordoba, client of the Umayyads, known as Ibn Akhi Rabi al-Sabbagh, who studied in al-Andalus.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abdallah ibn Hunayn ibn Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik al-Kalbi al-Qurtubi, Abu Muhammad, known as Ibn Akhi Rabi' al-Sabbagh. One of the scholars of Córdoba, a client (mawla) of the Umayyads, who took his learning in al-Andalus. 1

Death

The encyclopaedia gives his death as 318 AH (930 CE). The date comes from a single source and needs an additional source. 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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.393
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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.