At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · 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
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibrahim al-Sarayi the Shafi'i; he came to Cairo and held the shaykhdom of the ribat at the Barziyya, devoted himself to hadith, stayed with Zayn al-Din al-'Iraqi, and acquired fine copies which he carefully corrected and improved; he memorised the Hawi and taught most of it, with goodness and religion; skilled in many crafts; among his pleasantries was that Timur's first emergence fell in the year 'adhab', pointing to his appearance in 773. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 21
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibrahim al-Sarayi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibrahim-al-sarayi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.