Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Shams al-Din Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Khalil ibn Qaraja ibn Abdallah, of Damascus and then of Aleppo. He was born in 555 AH (1160 CE) and died in 648 AH (1250 CE). 1
What is reported of him
The source describes him as a scholar. His teachers and works need an additional source.
People and things also explored
The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Khalil al-Dimashqi Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-khalil-al-dimashqi-abu-al-hajjaj-yusuf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.