About Ali ibn al-Qattan
Lived 1166 – 1231 (aged 64–65). Ali ibn al-Qattan was a muhaddith, writer and legal scholar.
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Yahya (; 1166–1231), better known as Ibn al-Qattan al-Fasi was an imam, a hadith scholar and one of the leading intellectuals of the time of the Almohads. He was born in Fez (in present-day Morocco) and died in Sijilmasa. He is the author of Kitab al-nazar fi ahkam al-nazar bi-hassat al-basar
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Moroccan writer
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Ali ibn al-Qattan was born in 1166 in Fez.
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Ali ibn al-Qattan died in 1231 in Sijilmasa.
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Ali ibn al-Qattan was a muhaddith, writer and legal scholar.
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