At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith · 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 (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn al-Najjar, the great hafiz, author of the Tarikh Baghdad; born 578, vast of memory and perfect in knowledge of the art — al-Mustansir appointed him with Abu Mansur al-Harimi the two shaykhs of the Mustansiriyya's dar al-hadith, busied with the science of hadith. 1
Connections
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. 235
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Najjar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-najjar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.