At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith · Jurist · Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Walid Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'd ibn Ayyub al-Tujibi al-Baji, an Andalusian from Badajoz, a Maliki. The encyclopaedia describes him as a hadith scholar, jurist, man of letters, poet, theologian and expert in the principles of jurisprudence. It gives his birth as 403 AH and his death as 474 AH. 1
His journey
Al-Maqqari says he came to Baghdad and stayed three years studying jurisprudence and reading hadith. He met Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari, Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi, al-Sayymari and Ibn Amrus. He stayed a year in Mosul with Abu Ja'far al-Samnani, from whom he took the science of theology. He and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi narrated from each other. He returned to al-Andalus thirteen years later with much learning, gained with poverty and abstinence. 2
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 , p.40
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.73
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Baji, Abu al-Walid Sulayman ibn Khalaf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-baji-abu-al-walid-sulayman/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.