At a glance
- Roles
- sufi · Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Katila al-Harbi, remnant of Iraq's shaykhs — the Hanbali Sufi faqir; he heard hadith at Damascus from al-Diya' al-Maqdisi and Sulayman al-As'ardi, took fiqh at Baghdad from Qadi Abu Salih, at Harran from Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Tamim, at Damascus from Shams al-Din Ibn Abi 'Umar and at Egypt from Ibn Hamdan; he commented on al-Khirqi's book naming it al-Muhimm, wrote al-'Udda lil-Shidda on usul al-din and a work on sama'; a model ascetic and worshipper, possessed of states and wonders. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya· Shams al-Din ibn Abi Umar
People and things also explored
Fakhr al-Din ibn Taymiyya· Ibn Taymiyya· Sayf al-Din al-Amidi· Damascus· Harran· Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya· Shams al-Din ibn Abi Umar
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 641-642
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abdallah Katila al-Harbi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/katila-al-harbi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.