Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid, Abu Mansur ibn al-Sabbagh of Baghdad, nephew and son-in-law of Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh, author of al-Shamil. A Shafi'i jurist, he studied with his uncle and with al-Qadi Abu al-Tayyib, heard hadith and transmitted to Muhammad ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi and others. 1 Ibn al-Najjar called him an excellent jurist who knew the school by heart and left good works; al-Subki says his fatwas were collected from his uncle's words. 1
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16636
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Akhi Sahib al-Shamil”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-akhi-sahib-al-shamil/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.