At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Overview
Muhyi'l-Din 'Abd al-Qadir al-'Abadi, the Maliki grammarian — grammarian of Mecca; al-Suyuti says in Bughyat al-wu'at: "for tafsir, the unveiler of its mysteries; for hadith, the journey is to him in his transmissions; for fiqh, Malik's reins are his; for grammar, the reviver of its orbit — had Sibawayh seen him he would have acknowledged him." Born on 18 Rabi' II 814 at Mecca and raised there. 1
His shaykhs and issuance
He heard al-Taqi al-Fasi, Abu'l-Hasan Ibn Salama and a company; 'A'isha bint 'Abd al-Hadi, Ibn al-Kuwayk, 'Abd al-Qadir al-Armawi and al-Badr al-Damamini licensed him; he read fiqh under a company, al-Bisati licensed him for fatwa and teaching, he wrote the mansub hand, and sat at Mecca for fatwa and for teaching fiqh, tafsir and Arabic. He died in 880. 1
People and things also explored
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 329-330
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhyi al-Din al-'Abadi, the grammarian of Mecca”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-abadi-abd-al-qadir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.