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At a glance

Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Maghreb
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Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Hamza Hamid Paşa · Ali ibn Muhammad al-Masakini · al-Hifnawi Abu al-Makarim Najm al-Din Muhammad ibn Salim · Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi · Ibn Hamadush, Abd al-Razzaq ibn Muhammad

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 Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Bulaydi, an Algerian-born scholar attributed to the town of Bulayda. He moved between the Maghrib, al-Andalus and Tunisia. ¹

The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 1096 AH (1685 CE) and his death as 1176 AH (1763 CE). ¹

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

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Bulaydi Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bulaydi-abu-abd-allah-muhammad-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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The seven ahruf

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