Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Summary
Ibn al-Sabbagh, the Shafi'i jurist, author of al-Shamil; when Baghdad's Nizamiyya madrasa was finished in 459 and Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was assigned its teaching, he hid — saying the site was usurped — so Ibn al-Sabbagh taught there twenty days until al-Shirazi relented. 2
The outcry
When some spoke of the lawfulness of Ibn al-Sabbagh's sitting in the madrasa — he who said 'were it not that I performed my duty in it, I would have been of the lost' — it reached Nizam al-Mulk and heaven rose against him. 3
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.246,598
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.246; shadharat-dhahab p. 315
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.598
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-sabbagh-faqih/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.