At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Historian
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- 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-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn al-Dabithi, the hafiz, historian and muqri', named for Dabitha a village of Wasit; he heard from Abu Talib al-Kinani, Ibn Shatil, 'Abd al-Mun'im b. al-Farawi and their tier, studied fiqh under Abu'l-Hasan Ibn al-Buqi, mastered Arabic, rose and led; he excerpted usul and khilaf, devoted himself to hadith and its men, and composed a history of Wasit and a dhayl on Ibn al-Sam'ani's, dictating both. 1
Diya' al-Din on him
The hafiz Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi said: 'He is my shaykh and the last of the abundant hafizes; my eyes never saw his like in memorising the histories, the siras and the days of men.' He was stricken late in life. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Baghdad
People and things also explored
The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· The Jami' al-Qati'a of Baghdad· The mosque of Qati'at Umm Ja'far
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 185-186
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Dabithi al-Wasiti”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-dabithi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.