Ibn al-Dubaythi

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Wāsiṭī (

This manuscript is meant to be the continuity or a dhayl[5] of the lost work of Ibn al-Sam'ani who himself had continued the work of Al-Baghdadi author of Ta'rikh Baghdad.^[7] Ibn al-Dubaythi's job was to add the names of the dead preceptors after Al-Sam'ani.^[8] He listed the Baghdadis among them were the caliphs and the rulers of their covenants, ministers, lords of states, jurists, captains, judges, justices, preachers, jurists, hadith narrators, readers, people of virtue and literature, poets, Sufis, doctors, pharmacists, and others, and some of the characters quoted in Ibn Al-Dubaythi's work were preceptors whom he knew personally and wrote about his scholarly life, studies, travels, elders, and part of his relationships.

On his death in 1239 it was his famous pupil Ibn-al-Najjār who continued his work and expanded on it entitled "A [Useful] Extract from the continuation of the Ta'rikh Baghdad" (al-Mustafad min Dhayl Ta'rikh Baghdad).^[7]

History of Wasit

Ibn al-Dubaythi also wrote a history of Wasit, which was one of the most important scientific centers in which literature and science markets circulated. Historians described it as a “great history”, in which he presented accurate information about the cultural and intellectual aspects of Wasit, its scholars, and some of its schools and teachers, and it contains valuable information of a number of Men of Wasit, readers, speakers, jurists and writers, and about the scientific connections between it and the Islamic world, and the most famous scientific houses, and it included useful information about the science of hadith, and its presentation was distinguished by accuracy and comprehensiveness, given that he was from the city, and he lived with many of its sheikhs and scholars, and relied on historical books of Wasit scholars.^[9] His History of Wasit have not been preserved.^[8]

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