At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist · muhaddith
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, the Hanbali shaykh al-islam, grandfather of Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya; born at Harran where he memorised the Qur'an, he heard his uncle the khatib Fakhr al-Din and the hafiz 'Abd al-Qadir al-Ruhawi, journeyed to Baghdad in 603 with his cousin Sayf al-Din 'Abd al-Ghani and stayed six years, studied fiqh under Abu Bakr ibn Ghunayma and al-Fakhr Isma'il, and mastered Arabic, arithmetic and algebra. 2
Testimonies and works
Al-Dhahabi reports of his grandson that "his grandfather raised orphans"; Jamal al-Din ibn Malik told him "fiqh was made pliant for you as iron was made pliant for Dawud"; Ibn Rajab notes he sometimes gave the fatwa that a triple divorce uttered at once counts as one only; his works include al-Muntaqa of the legal hadiths, al-Muharrar in fiqh, Muntaha'l-ghaya, a sharh of the Hidaya, and the atraf of the hadiths of tafsir and ahkam. 2
Connections
- Taught
- Abdallah Katila al-Harbi
- Studied under
- Fakhr al-Din ibn Taymiyya
- Related to
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Born in
- Harran
- Died in
- Harran
People and things also explored
Sayf al-Din Ibn Taymiyya· The Conquest of Harran· The earthquake that ruined al-Jazira, 508· The Hanbali-Ash'ari Fitna at Damascus, 835· Harran's final ruin, 670· Muslim ibn Quraysh takes Harran and kills its qadi· Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581· Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 265-266
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/majd-al-din-ibn-taymiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.