At a glance
- Roles
- hadith-scholar · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Shaykh of shaykhs Burhan al-Din Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Qalqashandi, a Shafii. He was a traveller and a memoriser of hadith 1.
He heard hadith from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar, Jalal al-Din al-Balqini, al-Badr al-Damiri and al-Sakhawi, and he was the last person to transmit from that generation 1.
He died on Tuesday, the tenth of Jumada al-Akhira in the year 922, at the age of ninety-one 1.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 473
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibrahim Ibn al-Qalqashandi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibrahim-ibn-al-qalqashandi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.