At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb · Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
The master-hafiz Abu'l-Khattab 'Umar ibn al-Hasan, Zahiri in madhhab; he travelled the cities of al-Andalus and the opposing shore, made hajj in middle age, heard in Egypt from al-Busiri, in Iraq the musnad of Imam Ahmad, at Isfahan al-Tabarani's Mu'jam and at Nishapur the Sahih of Muslim with lofty isnads — and he used to say he had memorised the entire Sahih. 2
His impugnment
A group weakened him; al-Dhahabi said he is not strong and has refuted claims; he was granted the shaykhdom of Cairo's dar al-hadith, then his condition was exposed — it was taken from him and he was humiliated; he debated Shaykh Taj al-Din al-Kindi at Damascus, who faulted him for ascribing himself to Dihya al-Kalbi since by the muhaddiths' consensus Dihya left no offspring; he died in Cairo. 2
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 160-161
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Dihya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-dihya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.