At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- 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
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
His works on Medina
He wrote three works on the history of the abode of emigration: the large "Iqtifa' al-Wafa", which burned in the fire of the Prophet's Mosque and which he did not finish; the middle "Wafa' al-Wafa"; and the abridgement "Khulasat al-Wafa". 3
His observation
He took part in person in the rebuilding of the noble chamber, so accounts of his own observation appear in his book, which the editor says no other historian reaches. 3
Connections
- Lived in
- Medina
People and things also explored
Mosque of the Two Qiblas· Prophet's Mosque· The Sanctuary of Medina· Judaism in Arabia before Islam· Medina's society at the Hijra· The utum (tower-fortresses) of Yathrib· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness
Sources
- Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p. 4-8
- Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p.4
- Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p.4-8
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Samhudi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-samhudi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.