Ibn al-A'rabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad

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At a glance

Roles: muhaddith · Historian · mystic
Counted among: Sunni
Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali · Al-Istakhri, Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Ahmad · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · Al-Mundhir al-Balluti

Scripture and its sciences Spirituality and Sufism

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ScholarTradition

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People and things also explored

Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd· Ahmad ibn Hamallah al-Tishiti· Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq· Al-Ansari al-Harawi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad· Ibrahim Haqqi al-Erzurumi· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-A'rabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-arabi-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd

An ascetic, exemplar and preacher, known as the leading worshipper of Basra. He transmitted from al-Hasan al-Basri and Ata' ibn Abi Rabah.