At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- 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
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ibn Sayyid al-Nas the Elder, the Sevillian khatib-hafiz (597–659 AH); he devoted himself to hadith abundantly and obtained the source-books for himself — "with him the knowledge of hadith in the Maghreb was sealed." He died at Tunis in Rajab 1.
Connections
- Died in
- Tunis
People and things also explored
al-Zaytuna Mosque· Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534)· Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535)· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini's entry into Ifriqiya· The Recovery of Tunis from the Spanish· Abdelaziz Thâalbi
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 306-307
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Sayyid al-Nas the Elder”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-sayyid-al-nas-al-akbar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.