At a glance
- Roles
- mystic · muhaddith
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Spirituality and SufismScripture and its sciences
Place in the story
- Saint (as venerated)Tradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Ubayda Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd al-Basri, an ascetic, exemplar and preacher, described as the shaykh of the worshippers in Basra. He transmitted from al-Hasan al-Basri and Ata ibn Abi Rabah. The "Encyclopaedia of the Biographies of Scholars and Men of Letters" gives his death as 177 AH. 1
The data goes no further than this; a second source is needed.
People and things also explored
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The seven ahruf· Hadith· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-wahid-ibn-zayd/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.