Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the haram

محب الدين الطبري شيخ الحرم

c. September 1218 CE · Jumada II 615 AH – c. April 1296 CE · Jumada II 695 AH

Mecca

Shaykh of the Meccan haram — the Ri'yad al-Nadira, Dhakha'ir al-Uqba, al-Simt al-Thamin and al-Qira are his; carried his six-volume Ahkam to Yemen's sultan 1.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq · al-Dimyati · al-Kamal al-Fuwayra, musnid of Iraq · Baha' al-Din al-Qifti, qadi of Isna · Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz

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Mecca

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    sunni-shafii (transmitted)

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    Summary

    Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the Haram at Mecca and shaykh of the Shafi'is and hadith master of the Hijaz, composed a large six-volume work on rulings which he carried to Yemen and read to its sultan. Among his works are al-Riyad al-nadira fi fada'il al-'ashara, Dhakha'ir al-'uqba fi manaqib dhawi'l-qurba, al-Samt al-thamin fi manaqib ummahat al-mu'minin, al-Qura fi sakin umm al-qura, and a commentary on al-Tanbih. Al-Dimyati, Ibn al-'Attar, Ibn al-Khabbaz and al-Barzali transmitted from him. 1

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    Died in
    Mecca

    People and things also explored

    Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 743
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    islam.museum contributors. “Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the haram”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhibb-al-din-al-tabari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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    Dar al-Nadwa

    The council house founded by Qusayy on the north side of the mosque of the Kaaba, with its door into the mosque; Quraysh deliberated its grave matters and married off its daughters there.