At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Poet · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Sa'd al-Din Sa'd ibn Ali ibn al-Dayl al-Ansari al-Halabi, later of Damascus, a Hanafi. Ibn Tulun said: he was the teacher of the Mardaniyya madrasa at the White Bridge, at the foot of Qasyun. He studied, gained learning, excelled, became well-versed, and served as deputy judge in Aleppo. Later he came to Damascus and lodged in the Samisatiyya Sufi lodge 1.
The poet in three languages
He wrote verse in Arabic, Turkish and Persian. He composed an Arabic poem in praise of the judge of Damascus, al-Sayyid, which was embellished with words from both of the other languages, and the judge thanked him for it 1.
His unexplained death
He died on Saturday, the last day of Safar in the year 953. He was found thrown down at the door of the lodge, under the window of his retreat cell, with his thumbs tied together and strangled, and no enemy of his was ever known. He was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Faradis, probably in the seventies of his age 1.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 712
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islam.museum contributors. “Sa'd ibn al-Dayl”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sad-ibn-al-dayl/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.