ابن بقي الظاهري قاضي مراكش

ابن بقي الظاهري قاضي مراكش

c. 1228 CE · 15 Ramadan 625 AH

Marrakesh

Ibn Baqi — the Cordoban mawla of the Umayyads, qadi al-jama'a of Marrakesh, the last great Zahiri: musnid, scholar and chief of the Maghreb's men of knowledge; he died mid-Ramadan 625 past eighty-eight, the last of his line hearing him at Baghdad 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa

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Marrakesh

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Place in the story

    Sunni (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad ibn Yazid ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Umawi, their freedman, al-Baghawi al-Qurti Ibn Baqi; qadi al-jama'a who heard his grandfather Abu'l-Hasan and Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Haqq al-Khazraji and was given ijaza by Shurayh and others; he was Zahiri in madhhab, the musnid of the Maghreb and its scholar and chief, and held the judgeship of Marrakesh added to supreme headship and more; he died mid-Ramadan 625 past eighty-eight, and the last to transmit from him was 'Abdallah ibn al-Hanbali at Baghdad. 1

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    Marrakesh

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    Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)· Abd al-Wahid b. Idris al-Muwahhidi· Abd al-Wahid II al-Ma'mun, Almohad· Ibn Qatral· ابن رشد الحفيد· ابن زهر الحفيد· إدريس بن يعقوب المأمون الموحدي· Lalla Essaydi

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 117
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    islam.museum contributors. “ابن بقي الظاهري قاضي مراكش”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-baqi-al-zahiri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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    Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)

    In 1182 Ibn Rushd succeeded Ibn Ṭufayl as physician to the caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and to his son Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb in 1184.