Qadi Ayyad
Also recorded as Abu’l-Fadl ‘Iyad ibn Musa ibn ‘Iyad al-Yahsubi · Abu al-Fadl ‘Iyad ibn Amr ibn Musa ibn ‘Iyad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abdillah ibn Musa ibn ‘Iyad al-Yahsubi al-Sabti
Qadi Ayyad
"الخط المغربي تاريخ وواقع وآفاق" by عُمر أفا and محمد المغراوي · Public domain
- Born
- 1083 · Ceuta.
- Died
- 1149 · Marrakech.
- Nationality
- al-Andalus · Almoravid dynasty
- Occupation
- historian · qadi · judge · biographer · poet · theologian · legal scholar
- Fields
- Malikism · fiqh
- Known for
- Ikmāl al-Muʻallim bi-fawāʼid Muslim · al-Shifa · al-Ilma · I'lam bi-hudud qawa'id al-islam · Tartib al-Madarik wa-Taqrib al-Masalik
- Languages
- Arabic
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Qadi Ayyad. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
bnf · gnd · loc · wikidata · Q3101035
In this article
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Abu’l-Fadl ‘Iyad ibn Musa ibn ‘Iyad al-Yahsubi and Abu al-Fadl ‘Iyad ibn Amr ibn Musa ibn ‘Iyad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abdillah ibn Musa ibn ‘Iyad al-Yahsubi al-Sabti. His recorded language was Arabic. His recorded confession was Islam. One child is recorded: Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ.
Identity
Identity
Qadi Ayyad is recorded with the occupation biographer. Recorded as historian, qadi, judge, biographer and poet.
A page of a copy of "Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa" by al-Qadi Ayyad as-Sebti transcribed in Maghrebi thuluth script Royal Archives in Rabat n. 986
"الخط المغربي تاريخ وواقع وآفاق" by عُمر أفا and محمد المغراوي
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1083
Qadi Ayyad was born on 28 December 1083.
1149
Qadi Ayyad died on 14 October 1149.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Ceuta.
Birth place
Marrakech.
Death place
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Mohammed Sijelmassi, André Miquel, Royal Illuminated manuscripts of Morocco, p.62,
- 2.Yassin Ghanem Jassim al-Aridi. The Biographical Layers of the Ash'aris: Notable Figures of Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jama'ah. Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya. 180-181. 2024. 9786144962350.
- 3.Gibril Fouad Haddad. The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams & Hadith Masters. As-Sunnah Foundation of America. 164. 2 May 2015.
- 4.Aaminah-Kulsum Patel. The Ascent of Adam: Re-Evaluating the First Prophet in Quranic Exegesis. King's College London. 43. 1 July 2022.
- 5.Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, p 324. Koninklijke Brill NV
- 6.Brockopp, Jonathan E. Muhammad's Heirs The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950. Cambridge University Press. 1. 10 August 2017. 9781107106666.
- 7.Catlos, Brian A. Kingdoms of Faith A New History of Islamic Spain. C. Hurst & Co. 259. 2018. 9781787380035.
- 8.Mohammad Ilyas, Syed Kamarulzaman Kabeer. Unified World Islamic Calendar Sharia' Science and Globalization. Arabic Virtual Translation Center. 66. 3 June 2008.
- 9.Bagley, F.R.C. Twenty-three Years A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad. Taylor & Francis. 66. February 2013. 9781135030414.
- 10.J. F. P. Hopkins, Nehemia Levtzion, Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history, p.101,
- 11.Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, p 325. Koninklijke Brill NV
- 12.Rei, António. Misticismo Islâmico em al-Andalus. IEM. 2025-07-31.
- 13.Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, p 326. Koninklijke Brill NV
- 14.Ibn Mada'(Ahmad ibn Abdul Rahman-) Ibn Mada'(Ahmad ibn Abdul Rahman-).
- 15.Powers, David. Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists. BRILL. 2013-09-25. 9789004255883.
- 16.Delfina Serrano, "Claim or complaint?" Taken from Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker, pg. 200. Eds. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro and Sabine Schmidtke. Volume 103 of Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012.
- 17.Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical Dictionary of Islam. Rowman & Littlefield. 61. 14 December 2016. 9781442277243.
- 18.Schirrmacher, Christine. Handbook of Leaving Religion. Brill. 83. 2020.
- 19.Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, p 329. Koninklijke Brill NV .
- 20.The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Brill Publishers, Leiden. Bd. 4, S. 289.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Dictionnaire historique de l'islam, de Janine Sourdel et Dominique Sourdel, édition PUF.
- Ahmad al Maqqari al Tilimsani, Azhar al Riyad fi Akhbar al Qadi 'Ayyad (biography and works of Qadi Ayyad), 5 volumes
- "Qadi Iyad's Rebellion against the Almohads in Sabtah (A. H. 542–543/A. D. 1147–1148) New Numismatic Evidence", by Hanna E. Kassis, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 3 (July–September, 1983), pp. 504–514
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
institutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q3101035: Qadi AyyadWikimedia Foundation
General reference
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 5: Ikmāl al-Muʻallim bi-fawāʼid Muslim, al-Shifa, al-Ilma, I'lam bi-hudud qawa'id al-islam and Tartib al-Madarik wa-Taqrib al-Masalik.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Qabaniso MaleweziAuthor
- Qabil AjmeriAuthor
- QabusAuthor
- QadaryarAuthor
- Qadir Bux BedilAuthor
- Qādirbūh, ʻAbd al-Salām IbrāhīmAuthor
- Qahar AsiAuthor
- Qalandar Bakhsh JuratAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Qadi Ayyad?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.