List of Famous people named Ibn

Similar names: Ybn. Here are some famous Ibns:

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

First Name Ibn
Born on February 18, 1372
Died on February 2, 1449 (aged 76)

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī or Ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar and polymath "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of Hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, tafsir, poetry, and Shafi'ite jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of the Sahih of Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari.

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Ibn Abdur Rehman

First Name Ibn
Born on September 1, 1930
Died on April 12, 2021 (aged 90)

Ibn Abdur Rehman, also known as I.A. Rehman was a Pakistani peace and human rights advocate, and a veteran communist.

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Ibn Hazm

First Name Ibn
Born on November 7, 0994
Died on August 15, 1064 (aged 69)
Born in Spain, Andalusia

Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Caliphate of Córdoba, present-day Spain. Described as one of the strictest hadith interpreters, Ibn Hazm was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive. In all, his written works amounted to some 80 000 pages. The Encyclopaedia of Islam refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world, and he is widely acknowledged as the father of comparative religious studies alongside al-Biruni.

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Avempace

Born on November 30, 1079
Died on January 1, 1138 (aged 58)
Born in Spain, Aragon

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣā’igh at-Tūjībī ibn Bājja, best known by his Latinised name Avempace, was an Arab Andalusian polymath, whose writings include works regarding astronomy, physics, and music, as well as philosophy, medicine, botany, and poetry.

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Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri

First Name Ibn
Born on November 30, 0677
Died on July 24, 0742 (aged 64)
Born in Saudi Arabia

Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, also referred to as Ibn Shihab or al-Zuhri, was a tabi'i Arab jurist and traditionist credited with pioneering the development of sīra-maghazi and hadith literature.

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Ibn al-Quff

First Name Ibn
Born on August 20, 1233
Died on November 30, 1285 (aged 52)

Amīn-ad-Daula Abu-'l-Faraǧ ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Ibn al-Quff al-Karaki was an Arab physician and surgeon and author of the earliest and largest medieval Arabic treatise intended solely for surgeons.

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Ibn al-Shatir

First Name Ibn
Born on November 30, 1303
Died on January 1, 1375 (aged 71)

ʿAbu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari known as Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir was an Arab astronomer, mathematician and engineer. He worked as muwaqqit in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and constructed a sundial for its minaret in 1371/72.

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Ibn Sirin

First Name Ibn
Born on November 30, 0652
Died on January 12, 0729 (aged 76)

Muhammad Ibn Sirin was a Muslim mystic and interpreter of dreams who lived in the 8th century. He was a contemporary of Anas ibn Malik. Once regarded as the same person as Achmet son of Seirim, this is no longer believed to be true, as shown by Maria Mavroudi.

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Ibn Malik

محمد بن عبد الله بن مالك الطائي الجياني
First Name Ibn
Born on November 30, 0599
Died on February 21, 1274 (aged 674)
Born in Spain, Andalusia

Abu 'Abd Allah Jamal al-Din Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Malik al-Ta'i al-Jayyani was an Arab grammarian born in Jaén. After leaving al-Andalus for the Near East, and taught Arabic language and literature in Aleppo and Hamāt, before eventually settled in Damascus, where he began the most productive period of his life. He was a senior master at the Adiliyya Madrasa. His reputation in Arabic literature was cemented by his al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya, a versification of Arabic grammar, for which at least 43 commentaries have been written.

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Ibn Sallâm al-Jumahî

First Name Ibn
Born on November 30, 0755
Died on November 30, 0844 (aged 89)
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