At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
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Life in time
Summary
Umar ibn Uthman, Abu Hafs al-Waʿiz, known as Ibn Shahin (297–385 AH), hadith scholar of Baghdad's eastern side and author of thirty-three works. 1
Eleven years old
Ibn Shahin said: "The first time I wrote hadith with my own hand was in the year 308 AH, when I was eleven years old. Three of my shaykhs had likewise written at that age, and I took blessing from them: Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi, Abu Bakr ibn Ṣāʿid and Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud." 2
Thirty-three works
He said: "I composed thirty-three works: the great commentary (al-Tafsir al-Kabir) in a thousand parts, the Musnad in one thousand five hundred parts, the History in a hundred and fifty parts, and the book on asceticism in a hundred parts." He once reckoned up what he had bought of ink up to that time, and it came to seven hundred dirhams. He died on the twenty-first of Dhu al-Hijja in the year 385 AH and was buried in the cemetery of Bab Harb. 1
People and things also explored
The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.186-187
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.186
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Hafs Ibn Shahin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-shahin-umar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.