Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- JuristTradition
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Husayn ibn Abi al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ajdabi, Abu Abd Allah. A Maliki jurist, reader of the Qur'an and transmitter of hadith from Kairouan, whose origin was in Ajdabiya in Libya. He took from the leading figures of the Kairouan school. He died in 432 AH (1040 CE). 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.289-291
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Husayn ibn Abi al-Abbas al-Ajdabi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/husayn-ibn-abi-al-abbas-al-ajdabi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.