At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Sibt al-Khiyat, Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah b. 'Ali of Baghdad — Qur'an reader, Hanbali jurist and grammarian, shaykh of Iraq's readers and a prolific author; born 464, he read the Qur'an under his grandfather the ascetic Abu Mansur, excelled in Arabic under Ibn Fakhir, led prayer at the Harida mosque some fifty years, and was among the sweetest-voiced reciters of the Qur'an. 1
His contemporaries' praise
Ibn al-Jawzi said: "I never heard a reader of sweeter voice or finer delivery, despite his age"; Ibn Shafi' said he was the shaykh of Iraq — a resort of religion, trustworthiness and integrity — and "the beauty of all Iraq." He died Monday morning, 12 Rabi' II; his coffin was lowered by ropes from his mosque's roof before the largest gathering Ibn al-Jawzi had seen, and he was buried at Imam Ahmad's dakka beside his grandfather. 1
Connections
- Taught
- Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi· Ibn al-Jawzi
- Died in
- Baghdad
People and things also explored
death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· Abu al-Barakat al-Anmati· al-Qati'i al-Azji· ابن ناصر الحافظ· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 609-610
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “سبط الخياط”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sibt-al-khiyat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.