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Ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li (Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud)

ابن عبيدان البعلي (عبد الرحمن بن محمود)

Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li, Zayn al-Din, Abu al-Faraj, a Hanbali jurist. He heard hadith, studied fiqh under Taqi al-Din (Ibn Taymiyya) and others, excelled, and gave fatwas. Ibn Rajab says he knew fiqh and its fine points, usul, hadith, grammar and Sufism, and trained a circle including Izz al-Din Hamza ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyya. His works include al-Mutli fi al-ahkam ala abwab al-Muqni, a partial commentary on al-Muqni, and Zawa'id al-Kafi and al-Muharrir on al-Muqni. The header gives his death as 734 AH and his birth as 675 AH. 1

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Roles
Jurist
Counted among
Sunni (Hanbali)
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li, Zayn al-Din, Abu al-Faraj, a Hanbali jurist who heard hadith, studied fiqh under Taqi al-Din and others, and gave fatwas. 1 Ibn Rajab says he was a leading authority in fiqh and its fine points, usul, hadith, grammar and Sufism, and that he trained a circle of students. 1 His works include al-Mutli fi al-ahkam ala abwab al-Muqni, a partial commentary on al-Muqni, and a collection of the additions of al-Kafi and al-Muharrir to al-Muqni.

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.15809
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li (Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-rahman-ibn-ubaydan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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