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At a glance

Roles: Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Arabia
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu al-Abbas Salim ibn Fadl Ba'afdal, a scholar and traditionist from Tarim in Hadramawt. His lineage goes back to Sa'd al-Ashira. He died in the year 581 AH ¹.

The year corresponds to about 1185 CE in the museum's data. No other details are available, and the entry needs an additional source.

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.118

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The seven ahruf

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