Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Amr al-Sulaymani al-Bayakandi, a scholar from Bayakand, to which his nisba refers. He was born in 311 AH (923 CE) and died in 404 AH (1013 CE). 1
The dates come from one source and need a second.
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
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Bayakandi, Ahmad ibn Ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bayakandi-ahmad-ibn-ali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.