At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith · Historian · mystic
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesSpirituality and Sufism
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn Bishr ibn Dirham, Abu Sa'id al-A'rabi, a hadith imam and memoriser, historian, ascetic and Sufi from Basra, a scholar of hadith and of the generations (tabaqat). 1
Dates
The encyclopaedia says he was born in 246 AH (861 CE) and died in 340 AH (952 CE). 1 These dates come from a single source, so they need an additional source.
People and things also explored
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The seven ahruf· Hadith· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.153
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-A'rabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-arabi-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.