Ibn al-Dubaythi · Islam Museum

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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Ali al-Shalubin · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi

Summary

Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Sa'id b. Abi Talib Yahya b. Abi'l-Hasan 'Ali b. al-Musa'id al-Sa'di, known as Ibn al-Dubaythi — the Shafi'i jurist and historian of Wasit, named for the village near Wasit, his origin being Kanja; he heard much hadith, wrote useful marginalia, and had fine tales he deployed in conversation — among the famed hafizes and noted nobles in hadith, its men's names and history; he composed a book made a dhayl on the Tarikh Baghdad. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Dubaythi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-dubaythi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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