At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Abyani, a scholar and jurist of Ifriqiya in the fourth century AH. Al-Usayli and Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi, among others, transmitted from him. He lived through half a century of the Aghlabid period and half of the Fatimid period. 1
The museum's data record his death in 355 AH, from this source alone, so it needs an additional source. 1
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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah al-Abyani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abyani-abu-al-abbas/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.