At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist · teacher
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- 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
Summary
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Dust, Abu 'Abdallah the cloth-merchant; born Safar 323; he transmitted from Isma'il al-Saffar, al-Mutayri and others, was abundant and retentive in hadith, and spent seventeen years dictating hadith from memory, versed in fiqh on Malik's madhhab. 1
His dictation
When told, "I see you dictate from memory — why not from your book?", he said: examine what I have dictated — if there is error I will not dictate from memory, and if it is all correct what need is there for the book? He died in Ramadan 407 and was buried beside the minaret of the Mansur mosque. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi· Abu Mas'ud al-Dimashqi Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Hafiz· Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “أبو عبد الله أحمد بن محمد بن دوست البزاز الحافظ”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-dust/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.