Abu Sa'id ibn Yunus · Islam Museum

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Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani · Abu Mansur al-Azhari · al-Bazzar Abu al-Tahir Abd al-Wahid ibn Umar · Al-Isma'ili, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ibrahim · al-Naqqash

Overview

Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi'l-Hasan Ahmad b. Abi Musa Yunus b. 'Abd al-A'la al-Sadafi, the Egyptian muhaddith-historian — grandson of Yunus b. 'Abd al-A'la, companion of Imam al-Shafi'i and transmitter of his new doctrine; he assembled for Egypt two histories: the larger devoted to the Egyptians, the smaller covering strangers who came to Egypt; Abu'l-Qasim Yahya b. 'Ali al-Hadrami continued and built on both. ¹

Sources

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

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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Sa'id ibn Yunus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-said-ibn-yunus-al-sadafi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.

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