At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
'Ali ibn 'Umar al-Qazwini, the celebrated ascetic of Baghdad; born at the opening of Muharram 360, he heard Abu Hafs ibn al-Zayyat, Ibn Hayawayh and Ibn Shadhan. Of abundant intelligence among God's righteous servants, he taught Qur'an, transmitted hadith and left his house only for prayer; marvels were related of him. 2
His stance and death
When he entered the mosque on Friday 9 Jumada al-Ula 429 the crowd roared to see him; Ibn al-Madhhab mounted the minbar reading the beatific-vision hadiths, Ibn al-Tamimi refuted him and read the attributes hadiths, whereupon al-Qazwini declared "I hold only that the Qur'an is God's speech, disputation is innovation and the dialecticians astray," and his name was written beneath the Qadiri creed read in the Diwan in 433 ahead of the jurists. He died in Sha'ban 442 — a witnessed day when Baghdad's markets closed — and Abu 'Ali al-Bardani said a hundred thousand attended. 3
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.488-489
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.438-439
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.438-439,488-489
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Qazwini the ascetic (Ali ibn Umar al-Harbi)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-umar-al-qazwini/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.