At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Arabia
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu'l-'Izz Muwaffaq al-Din Muzaffar b. Ibrahim b. Jama'a b. 'Ali b. Shami b. Ahmad b. Nahid b. 'Abd al-Razzaq al-'Iylani — the nisba to Qays 'Aylan — Hanbali littérateur, poet and prosodist of Egypt, blind; born with five nights left of Jumada II 544 in Egypt, he heard hadith from Abu'l-Qasim Ibn al-Basti, Ibn al-Sabuni, Abu Tahir al-Silafi, al-Busiri and others, and met many men of letters. 1
His verse
He composed fine verse, mastered prosody and wrote a celebrated work in it proving his skill; asked how he could love though blind, he answered with his famous lines, "I love with the limb of hearing, and I have not seen the named one." He died in Egypt at dawn on Saturday in Muharram 623 and was buried at the foot of al-Muqattam. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 111-112
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Muzaffar al-Din al-Iylani, the blind prosodist”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-iylani-muzaffar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.