At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
The trustworthy hafiz Abu'l-Fadl Ibn Nasir Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Salami of Baghdad, muhaddith of Iraq; born in 467, he took to hadith after mastering fiqh, and switched from the Shafi'i to the Hanbali school because of a dream in which the Prophet told him "keep to the school of Shaykh Abu Mansur al-Khayyat"; people used to say Ibn Nasir would come out Baghdad's philologist and Ibn al-Jawaliqi its muhaddith — it turned out the reverse. 2
Testimonies
Ibn al-Jawzi said: "he is the one who gave me my hadith auditions and from him I took all I took of the science — I read to him thirty years and profited from no one as I did from him"; Abu Musa al-Madini called him the leading hadith scholar of Baghdad in his time; he endowed his books as waqf, left worn clothes and three dinars, and died childless. 2
Connections
- Taught
- Ibn al-Jawzi
- Died in
- Baghdad
People and things also explored
death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· Abu al-Barakat al-Anmati· al-Qati'i al-Azji· سبط الخياط· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 635-636
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “ابن ناصر الحافظ”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-nasir-al-sulami/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.