At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist · Historian
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn Abi'l-Dam, the Shafi'i qadi and historian; born at Hama, he journeyed to Baghdad for fiqh, heard at Cairo, and transmitted there and in many Syrian lands; he held the judgeship of his town Hamadan and of Hama too — an imam of the Shafi'i madhhab versed in history. His works include a commentary on Mushkil al-Wasit, Adab al-qadi, a book on history and the Islamic sects, and the great al-Tarikh al-Muzaffari. 1
Connections
- Born in
- Hama
People and things also explored
al-Kamil takes Hama· Saladin takes Homs and Hama· Frankish siege of Hama· al-Malik al-Mansur, lord of Hama· al-Malik al-Mansur II of Hama· al-Malik al-Muzaffar, last king of Hama· al-Zaki al-Barzali· Ibn al-Barizi, qadi of Hama
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 221
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Abi al-Dam al-Hamawi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-abi-al-dam/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.