Ibn Sam'un · Islam Museum

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Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Summary

Abu'l-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Isma'il the preacher of Baghdad, known as Ibn Sam'un; unique of his age in discourse on spiritual intimations, fineness of preaching, majesty of allusion and delicacy of expression; he reached many of the great shaykhs including Abu Bakr al-Shibli; the people of Iraq held him in great esteem, and it was he whom al-Hariri of the Maqamat meant in the Razi maqama where he says: and they bring down Ibn Sam'un for him. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Sam'un”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-samun/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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