At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
The imam, the memoriser, the hadith scholar, the expert in jurisprudence and principles, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali (may God be pleased with him) ibn Musa al-Bayhaqi, from Khusrawjird in Khurasan. He was born in 384 AH (994 CE) and died in 458 AH (1066 CE). 1
The dates come from one source and need a second. The data do not record his works, which need an additional source.
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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-Bayhaqi Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bayhaqi-abu-bakr-ahmad-ibn-al-husayn/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.