Taj al-Din ibn al-Sa'adat

تاج الدين ابن السعادات

1128 CE · 522 AH – 1188 CE · 584 AH

Taj al-Din Ibn al-Sa'adat, known as al-Muhdhabi (522–584) — the Shafi'i-Sufi adib whose five-volume commentary on al-Hariri's Maqamat far outgrew every other sharh; settled in the Sumaysatiyya khanqah at Damascus; his famous story of taking endowment books from Aleppo's storehouse in 579 is told by Ibn Khallikan 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

10751100112511501175120012251250 c. c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abu Muhammad al-Hijri · Afifa Khatun · al-Iraqi al-Khatib · Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi

Summary

Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Abi'l-Sa'adat 'Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Mas'ud, Taj al-Din Ibn al-Sa'adat known as al-Muhadhdhabi; the Shafi'i jurist, Sufi, adib of Khurasan and Marw al-Rudh — he devoted himself to the Haririan Maqamat and commented them at length, encompassing their intent as none had, coming to five great volumes no commentator of that book reached nor half of it, a famous and abundant work. 1

His sojourn

He dwelt at Damascus in the Sumsatiyya khanqah with people taking from him; when Salah al-Din entered Aleppo in 579 he took from its library. 1

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Taj al-Din ibn al-Sa'adat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-saadat-al-masudi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.