At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
- JuristTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Husayn Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Asad ibn Abi Bakr al-Asbahi al-Ta'izi, a Yemeni jurist and hadith scholar from Ta'iz. The "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters" says that he excelled in jurisprudence, studied hadith, and studied jurisprudence under a number of the shaykhs of his age. 1
Dates
The encyclopaedia gives his birth as around 644 AH and his death as around 703 AH. Both dates come from that source alone and need a second source. 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 , p.74
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ali ibn Ahmad al-Asbahi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-ahmad-al-asbahi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.