Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Overview
Ummat al-Wahid bint al-Husayn ibn Isma'il al-Mahamili, the learned jurist and muftiya named Sutayta; she memorised the Qur'an and Shafi'i fiqh and mastered inheritance law, the cyclic questions, Arabic and more. 1
Her learning
Al-Barqani said she issued fatwas alongside Abu 'Ali ibn Abi Hurayra, and others called her among the best memorisers of fiqh. She died in 377 AH, mother of the qadi Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Qasim. 1
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.1161
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ummat al-Wahid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ummat-al-wahid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.