At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Arabia
- 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 (debated)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn Masdi the hafiz; he transmitted from Muhammad ibn 'Imad and very many others, collecting and compiling; Ibn Nasir al-Din said he was a hafiz and polymath of wide travels and discernment — Shi'ism was reported of him — who resided at Mecca and was murdered there treacherously; al-Dhahabi said he died at Mecca in Shawwal having made himself a mu'jam. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Mecca
People and things also explored
Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 543
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Masdi al-Gharnati”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-masdi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.