At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesHistory-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Thabit, known as al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, a hadith scholar and historian. He was born in 392 AH (1002 CE) and died in 463 AH (1072 CE), according to the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". He wrote the "History of Baghdad". 1
From his life
Ibn al-Jawzi relates that the vizier Ibn al-Muslima showed him a document that some Jews had produced, claiming that it dropped the poll tax from the people of Khaybar. Al-Khatib said that it was forged, and argued that it contained the witness of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, who embraced Islam on the day of the Conquest, while Khaybar was in the seventh year. 2
In the Basasiri affair he went into hiding and left Baghdad for Syria, then returned in 462 AH. Ibn al-Jawzi says that he had fifty-six works, and that he was of the school of Ahmad ibn Hanbal and then moved to the school of al-Shafi'i. 2
The museum's data attribute to him the book Iqtida al-Ilm al-Amal. 3
Connections
- Authored
- Iqtida' al-'Ilm al-'Amal
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din· Iqtida' al-'Ilm al-'Amal· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.265-267
- Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ahmad ibn Ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khatib-al-baghdadi-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.