Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Islam Museum

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Era: The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad · Said ibn Aws Abu Zayd al-Ansari · Sulayman I of Tlemcen · Yahya al-Qattan · Hafs ibn Ghiyath

Overview

Abu Salama 'Abd al-A'la al-Sadafi, father of the Maliki jurist Yunus b. 'Abd al-A'la; among his remembered sayings: "Whoever buys what he does not need has sold what he needs." ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-ala-al-sadafi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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