السمهودي

السمهودي

1440 عیسوی · صفر 844 ھ – 1506 عیسوی · 911 ھ

المدينة المنورة

Historian, mufti and teacher of Medina, resident there from 873 AH; he wrote three histories of the Prophet's city — the large Iqtisaf al-Wafa which burned unfinished in the mosque fire, the middling Wafa al-Wafa, and the brief Khulasat al-Wafa — and himself served in the rebuilding of the Noble Chamber, so his book carries eyewitness knowledge no other historian of the city matched ¹.