Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi

عبد الوهاب بن علي البغدادي

973 CE · 362 AH – 1031 CE · 421 AH

A Maliki jurist, legal theorist, hadith scholar and poet from Baghdad, known as Ibn Nasr.

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Roles
Jurist · muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah · Abu Talib ibn Ghaylan al-Bazzaz · Abu'l Tayyeb Tabari · Al-Barqani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad · Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

Development of law, theology and institutionsScripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • JuristTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali ibn Nasr al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn Nasr, a Maliki jurist, theologian, transmitter of hadith and poet from Baghdad. The "Encyclopaedia of the Biographies of Scholars and Men of Letters" gives his birth as 362 AH and his death as 421 AH. 1

The data goes no further than this; a second source is needed for both dates and for the details of his biography.

People and things also explored

Abdullah ibn Abbas· Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi· Habib Ali al-Jifri· Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· Malik ibn Anas· Umar bin Hafiz· Uthman ibn Affan· Zayd ibn Thabit

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-wahhab-ibn-ali-al-baghdadi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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