Mus'ab al-Khushani

مصعب الخشني

1139 CE · 535 AH – 1208 CE · 604 AH

A scholar of the Maghrib who studied with Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili in Bejaia.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb
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Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Mus'ab ibn Muhammad ibn Mas'ud al-Khushani, a scholar from the Maghrib, who learned from Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili in Bejaia. The Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa al-Udaba' says that he was born in 535 AH (1139 CE) and died in 604 AH (1208 CE). 1

The data need an additional source: no page number is given, and there is no second source for the two dates.

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

  1. 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. “Mus'ab al-Khushani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mus-ab-al-khushani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.