Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Life in time
Summary
Abu'l-Walid Yunus b. 'Abdallah b. Muhammad b. Mughith, known as Ibn al-Saffar, qadi al-jama'a of Cordoba; he studied fiqh under Abu Bakr Ibn Darb and held the judgeship with the preaching and the vizierate, attaining headship in religion and world — a righteous, just jurist, authoritative signpost in lugha, Arabic and poetry, eloquent and articulate, rich in merits, with works on asceticism and more; he died in Rajab aged seventy-one. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 244
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islam.museum contributors. “أبو الوليد ابن الصفار قاضي قرطبة”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-saffar-al-qurtubi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.