At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Ahmad b. Sawada, Abu'l-'Abbas, known as Khashish — of Kufa by origin, settled Baghdad and related from 'Ubayda b. Humayd, Zayd b. al-Hubab and others; Waki' the qadi and Qasim al-Mutarriz transmitted from him. Al-Daraqutni: his hadith is considered but not proof; al-Khatib: "I saw nothing sound in his hadith." 1
His turn
He recited for himself: "be busy with God's remembrance, withdrawn from all people"; the hammaz said to him, "you are bound to hear and obey, may God mend you — al-Mutawakkil has sent you ten thousand dirhams; take them — what ails you?" And the joy constricted him and he was silent, inwardly gladdened. He died in 258. 1
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 102
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islam.museum contributors. “Ahmad ibn Sawada (Khashish)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-sawada/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.