At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · sufi
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Ayyub al-Hamadhani, an ascetic jurist from Buzanjird, a village of Hamadan. He came to Baghdad in his youth and attached himself to Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi, and studied under him until he excelled in the principles of law and in disputed points. Then he turned to asceticism, worship and striving 2.
Preaching
He came to Baghdad in the year 515 AH, and held a session of preaching at the Nizamiyya madrasa, and met with great acceptance. He settled in Marw and lived there, and a group of those who had withdrawn to God gathered in his hospice. Ibn al-Sam'ani said that the education of the sincere disciples ended with him 2.
Death
Connections
- Studied under
- Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
- Born in
- Hamadan
- Died in
- Merv
People and things also explored
Abu al-Hayja sent against Hamadan· Battle of Dandanqan (1040)· Conquest of Hamadan and Waj Rudh (22 AH)· The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar· death of Sultan Shah of Merv — Malikshah takes Khurasan· Ibn Sina becomes vizier to Shams al-Dawla at Hamadan· the Khwarazmshah retakes what the Ghurids had seized· The Mongol Sweep through Jibal, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , p. 78-80
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , p.78-79
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , p.79-80
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islam.museum contributors. “يوسف الهمذاني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yusuf-al-hamadhani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.