Ibn al-Salah

ابن الصلاح

1181 CE · 577 AH – c. September 1245 CE · c. 25 Rabi' II 643 AH

The hadith master Abu Amr ibn al-Salah; author of the dictation 'al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya', twenty-six comprehensive hadiths on which al-Nawawi built his 'Arba'un'.

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Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Ali al-Shalubin · Ajiba bint al-Baqdari · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Hasan al-Saghani

Scripture and its sciences

Overview

The imam and memoriser Abu Amr Ibn al-Salah. He dictated a session that he called al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya (The Comprehensive Hadiths), in which he gathered the comprehensive hadiths on which, it is said, the religion turns. 1

The session contained twenty-six hadiths. Al-Nawawi took them and built his Forty on them. See The Comprehensive Hadiths. 1

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Taught
al-Kamal Salar al-Irbili· Mu'in al-Din ibn Bundar· Shams al-Din Ibn Nuh· Taj al-Din al-Firkah, jurist of Syria· Taqi al-Din ibn Razin
Authored
al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya
Mentioned in
Muwatta 264

People and things also explored

Damascus· al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyya (Nawawi's Forty)· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· ابن عبد البر· الشيخ عز الدين بن عبد السلام· Muhammad· Cairo· Salah (the prescribed prayer)

Sources

  1. Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
  • The Method of Documenting the Prophetic Sunna — Muhammad Ibrahim al-Fayyumi
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