Ibn Battah

Who was Ibn Battah?

The Imaam Abu Abdullah `Ubaidullah bin Muhammad bin Battah al-`Ukbari al-Hanbali [known as Ibn Battah] was the Hadeeth Master, the Hanbali Legal Jurist, and an ascetic. He was born in the year 916 in Ukbaraa, a land close to Baghdad, and died in the year 997.

His father was a Faqeeh and it was under his auspices that he began his studies and he often reports from him in his books. He was sent to Baghdad to study hadeeth while still young, then he travelled to various lands such as Shaam, Basrah, Mecca and Thagur studying under a host of the leading scholars of his time and excelled in aqeedah, hadith and fiqh.