At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith · writer
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn al-Abbar, the katib-adib, one of the imams of hadith; he mastered the readings, devoted himself to the tradition, excelled in rhetoric, verse and prose, and possessed majesty and standing. The lord of Tunis killed him unjustly on the twentieth of Muharram, aged sixty-three. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Tunis
People and things also explored
al-Zaytuna Mosque· Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534)· Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535)· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini's entry into Ifriqiya· The Recovery of Tunis from the Spanish· Abdelaziz Thâalbi
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 303
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Abbar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-abbar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.