Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl al-Ṣan‘ānī of Yemen [d. 1182/1768]

A prolific scholar from Yemen who authored numerous influential works and contributed to the revival of ḥadīth and Sunnī Islam in the region. Born 1099H in the mountainous city of Kuḥlān, northwest of Ṣanʿāʾ in Yemen, to a scholarly family of Prophetic lineage that traced its descendents to Imām Ḥasan b. ʿAlī, the grandson of the Prophet, his full name was al-Sayyid Abū Ibrāhīm Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl b. Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣan‘ānī al-Kuḥlānī al-Amīr—also known as Ibn al-Amīr or al-Badr al-Amīr. Al-Ṣan‘ānī benefited fully from the religious environment and scholarly credentials of his family, being raised and trained with great care by

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• Written by Dr Abu Zayd at September 16, 2011
• 12th Century, 18th Century CE, Hadith Scholars, Hijaz (Saudi Arabia), Khalaf (Later Generations), Salafi Scholars, Yemen