Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Bakr Yahya ibn Sa'dun ibn Tammam ibn al-Nas al-Azdi al-Qurtubi, an Andalusian scholar from Cordoba, from whom students took and heard hadith. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 486 AH and his death as 567 AH. 1
The museum's data hold no details of his teachers or his works, which 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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.519-520
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Azdi al-Qurtubi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-azdi-yahya-ibn-sadun/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.