At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Arabia · Levant & Iraq · Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Badi ibn al-Diya, judge of Mecca and shaykh of the Haram there. Ibn Tulun said that he was a man of learning and standing. He came to Damascus, then travelled to Egypt, where he heard that Shaykh Zayn al-Din Abd al-Latif ibn Abi Kathir had been appointed judge of Mecca. He returned to Damascus and stayed there for some time 2.
A witness to the first coffee in Damascus
Judge Badi travelled to Anatolia in the year 941, after he had attended Shaykh Ali al-Kizwani opposite the mosque of al-Afif in al-Salihiyya and listened to the mawlid there. He and Shaykh Ali and their group drank coffee made from the coffee bean. Ibn Tulun writes: "I do not know that it was drunk in our town, meaning Damascus, before that." When he reached Anatolia, the judgeship of Jeddah was restored to him. He later returned and died in the city of Bidlis, on the borders of Diyar Bakr 1.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 663-664
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 663
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islam.museum contributors. “Badi' ibn al-Diya, qadi of Mecca”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/badi-ibn-al-diya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.