At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
The great hafiz Qawam al-Sunna Abu'l-Qasim Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Taymi al-Talhi al-Isbahani the Shafi'i; Abu Musa al-Madini called him "imam of the imams of his time, teacher of the scholars of his age and exemplar of the Sunnis of his era"; he was paralysed in Safar 434 and remained afflicted; an imam in tafsir, hadith, language and letters, knowing the texts and isnads, he dictated close to three thousand sessions at the Isfahan mosque. 2
Works and death
He composed the thirty large volumes of Tafsir al-Jami', the Idah in four, the Mawdih in three, the Mu'tamad in ten, a Persian tafsir, the Targhib wa'l-tarhib, sharhs of the two Sahihs which his son completed, Dala'il al-nubuwwa and the Tadhkira in some thirty parts; the imams of Baghdad said "no better or more retentive scholar travelled to Baghdad after Ahmad ibn Hanbal"; born in 457, he died on the morning of the Festival of Sacrifice, 535. 2
Connections
- Died in
- Isfahan
People and things also explored
Jameh Mosque of Isfahan· Conquest of Isfahan (21 AH)· death of al-Bahlawan — the Isfahan mazhab wars, the Rayy fitna, Tughril breaks free· The Jalali calendar reform· The killing of Mardawij ibn Ziyad· Mas'ud ibn Mahmud Storms Isfahan· Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah takes the Batiniyya fortress at Isfahan and kills Ibn Attash in 500· Mungli killed; Aghlamish inherits his domains
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 585-586
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “قوام السنة إسماعيل التيمي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ismail-al-taymi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.