At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · 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-hanafi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn al-Husayri, shaykh of the Hanafis at Damascus; he transmitted Sahih Muslim from al-Farawi's companions, taught at Damascus's Nuriyya for twenty-five years, and wrote fine books including a commentary on al-Jami' al-kabir; among the working scholars, much in charity, copious in tears — the headship of Abu Hanifa's followers ended with him. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 190
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Husayri al-Bukhari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-husayri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.