At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Najm al-Din Abu 'Abdallah Ahmad b. Hamdan b. Shabib al-Nimri al-Harrani, the Hanbali jurist, usuli and qadi resident in Cairo; the last to transmit from the hafiz 'Abd al-Qadir al-Ruhawi, he heard from the khatib Abu 'Abdallah Ibn Taymiyya, and kept company with his cousin Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, debating with him at length until knowledge of the madhhab — its subtleties and its depths — ended with him. 1
His works
His writings include al-Ri'aya al-sughra and al-Ri'aya al-kubra in fiqh, Kitab al-Wafi, a Muqaddima in usul al-din, and Sifat al-mufti wa'l-mustafti; he held the deputy judgeship at Cairo, and al-Dimyati, al-Mizzi and al-Birzali transmitted from him. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
- Sibling of
- Taqi al-Din Shabib, poet-oculist
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 748-749
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Najm al-Din ibn Shabib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/najm-al-din-ibn-shabib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.