Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani
محمد بن علي الأنصاري الجياني
1098 CE · 492 AH – 1167 CE · 563 AH
The traditionist, Qur'an commentator and reader Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani, born at Jaen in al-Andalus in 492 AH; he travelled east and settled at Damascus, where he taught the Qur'an.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn Yasir al-Ansari al-Jayyani, a hadith scholar, commentator and scholar of the readings. He was born in Jaén in al-Andalus in 492 AH (1098 CE), then travelled to the East and settled in Damascus, where he taught the Qur'an. He died in 563 AH (1167 CE). 1
The details of his teachers and works need an additional source.
People and things also explored
The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-ibn-ali-al-ansari-al-jayyani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.