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al-Busayli Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad

البسيلي أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Scholar from Algeria who settled and was buried in Tunis, and is linked with the transmission of Ibn Arafa's commentary; died 1437 CE.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan · Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Ubba al-Maqdisi

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 al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Busayli, a scholar from Algeria who settled in Tunis and was buried there. Reports of his life are connected with the Tafsir of Ibn Arafa. He died in 1437 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

  1. 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-Busayli Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-busayli-abu-al-abbas-ahmad-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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People

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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.