al-Layth b. Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Miṣrī

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/8924

Egyptian legal scholar

Names

  • Arabic: الليث بن سعد بن عبد الرحمن المصري = al-Layth b. Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Miṣrī 1
  • Arabic: ليث بن سعد = Layth b. Saʿd 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: ca. 176-177 AH/792-793 CE

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 124، 255، 482، 501 (2) 16، 54، 459 (3) 52، 70، 159، 169، 172، 195، 201، 234، 301، 352، 371، 463 (4) 25، 34، 48، 56، 59، 80، 106، 126، 142، 223، 229، 261، 275، 300، 311، 327، 338، 346، 380، 385، 386، 397، 413، 417، 422، 494 (5) 11، 17، 19، 21، 92، 165، 176، 192، 291، 335، 337، 422 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 44, 94, 104, 108, 134, 169, 175, 199, 213, 217, 221, 287, 290, 318, 341, 348, 364, 391, 395, 410, 415 [Arabic].
    • Layth: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 154, 417 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Layth b. Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Miṣrī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/8924.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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