At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Preacher
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Najm al-Din Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Mun'im ibn 'Ali al-Nahri al-Harrani, Hanbali jurist and preacher, travelled to Baghdad in his youth in 478 and studied fiqh under Abu'l-Fath ibn al-Muni. He returned to Harran, then came to Baghdad a second time in 596 with his two sons al-Najib 'Abd al-Latif and al-'Izz 'Abd al-'Aziz, settled there and held a preaching assembly; he was sweet-spoken, nimble of phrase, and proud-spirited despite severe poverty. 1
On him
Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi said: he was very shy, visited my grandfather, and heard hadith with us; and he mentioned that al-Nahri settled at Baghdad because of a rift between him and Harran's khatib Ibn Taymiyya, fearing the man would move against him. He died on Thursday, 16 Rabi' I 601. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 11-12
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islam.museum contributors. “نجم الدين النهري”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/najm-al-din-al-nahri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.