al-Akhsikathi, Husam al-Din

الأخسيكثي حسام الدين

1247 CE · 644 AH

Scholar from Akhsikath in the Fergana valley who died in 644 AH.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Ali al-Shalubin · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu Abd Allah Husam al-Din Muhammad al-Akhsikathi, a scholar from Akhsikath in the Ferghana valley. 1

Death

He died in 644 AH (1247 CE), according to the encyclopaedia. 1 The date rests on tradition and needs an additional source.

His works and teachers also need an additional source.

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Akhsikathi, Husam al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-akhsikathi-husam-al-din-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.