Ibn al-Athir al-Jazri
ابن الأثير الجزري
1149 CE · 544 AH – 1210 CE · 606 AH
The hadith scholar and jurist Majd al-Din Abu al-Sa'adat al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani, the eldest of the three Ibn al-Athir brothers; he served the chanceries of the Jazira and Mosul, and after gout crippled him he produced most of his works by dictation, among them 'al-Nihaya fi Gharib al-Hadith' and 'Jami' al-Usul'.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
In space
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Scripture and its sciencesEducation
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
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People and things also explored
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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-Athir al-Jazri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-athir-al-jazri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.