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سعد النيلي

سعد النيلي

c. 1196 CE · 592 AH

Sa'd b. Ahmad b. Makki al-Nili — of Nil, a town on the Euphrates — tutor and poet; most of his verse praises the Prophet ﷺ's house, and al-Imad calls him extreme in his Shi'ism yet given to scrupulosity and learned in adab; he died in 592 1.

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Roles
Poet
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Summary

Sa'd ibn Ahmad ibn Makki al-Nili — named for Nil, a town on the Euphrates — tutor and poet whose verse is mostly panegyric of the Prophet's house. Al-'Imad said he was an extreme Shi'i, bound by scrupulosity and learned in adab. He died in 592. 1

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 789
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