Ibrahim bin Abdullah al-Mudayhish
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Ibrahim bin Abdullah al-Mudayhish is a contemporary Saudi scholar of hadith and a faculty member at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, known for his multivolume study on the biography and narrations of Fatima bint Muhammad.
Background and Education
His full lineage is Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman bin Hammud bin Muhammad al-Mudayhish. His family traces its origins to the town of al-Shaqqa in the al-Qassim region, representing a branch of the al-Humaydi lineage that originally came from al-Tawim in Sudayr.
Al-Mudayhish pursued his higher education in Islamic sciences in Riyadh, earning his master's degree in the Sunnah and Its Sciences department at the College of Usul al-Din at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University during the academic year 1431–1432 AH (2010–2011 CE), under the academic supervision of Abdullah bin Nasir al-Shaqari.
Academic Career and Scholarship
Al-Mudayhish joined the faculty of the College of Usul al-Din at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. His scholarship focuses primarily on hadith criticism, biographical evaluation (al-jarh wa-al-ta'dil), and the verification of regional scholarly texts. In 1428 AH (2007 CE), he published Mustalahat Aimmat al-Hadith al-Khassa, a specialized examination of narrator evaluation terminology and the contextual indicators required to understand early hadith critics.
In 1434 AH (2013 CE), he edited and published al-Barahin al-mu'tabara fi hadm qawa'id al-mubtadi'a, a theological treatise written by his relative Abdulaziz bin Muhammad al-Mudayhish (d. 1350 AH). He also authored Fatima bint al-Nabi: Siratuha, Fadailuha, Musnaduha, an extensive thematic and hadith study published in seven volumes in Ramadan 1440 AH (May 2019 CE) by Dar al-Al wal-Sahb al-Waqfiyya.
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List of Works
Nawat al-Maktaba (The Core of the Library) is a bibliographic guide designed to provide a curated selection of essential Islamic and Arabic titles for establishing a scholarly library. It offers structured book recommendations and preliminary acquisition guidelines to assist individual students of Islamic knowledge as well as communal projects, such as establishing endowment libraries.
al-Hammadiya is a treatise examining the concepts of lineage, moral responsibility, ancestral virtue, and the preservation of familial scholarship. Combining religious, genealogical, ethical, educational, and literary perspectives, the work addresses families and communities by emphasizing piety, noble character, and the duty of descendants to maintain and share their forebears' intellectual contributions.
Asl Kalimat "Shatir" (The Origin of the Word "Shatir") is a linguistic treatise tracing the etymology, historical evolution, and contemporary usage of the Arabic word shāṭir. The work investigates the term's classical roots, its early pejorative associations with rogue conduct or distance, its semantic shifts across Sufi and administrative contexts, and its modern development into a descriptor for intelligence and skill.
al-Tasghir fi Alqab al-Usar (Diminution in Family Titles) is an onomastic and linguistic treatise examining the prevalence and motives of grammatical diminutive forms (tasghir) in the family surnames of Najd, particularly in the al-Qassim region. It explores the morphological, psychological, and social causes behind these titles, analyzing statistical samples of regional family names.
Fatima bint al-Nabi - Siratuha, Fadailuha, Musnadaha (Fatima, Daughter of the Prophet: Her Biography, Virtues, and Musnad) is an extensive multivolume hadith and historical study focusing on the biography, virtues, and transmitted narrations of Fatima bint Muhammad. Drawing on Sunni hadith methodology, the work combines thematic analysis with critical evaluation of transmission chains to compile and assess accounts concerning her life and legacy.
Nadb al-Eid (Lamenting the Eid) is a contemporary analytical treatise that examines why people across different generations lament the perceived loss of the joy of Eid, exploring the legal, psychological, and social dimensions of celebration in Islam.
al-Muwazana bayn «al-Fa'iq» lil-Zamakhshari (t 538 H) wa«al-Nihaya» li-Ibn al-Athir (t 606 H) is a contemporary monograph that examines, contrasts, and evaluates two major classical dictionaries of rare hadith vocabulary (gharib al-hadith).
This contemporary treatise addresses the phenomenon of researchers delaying or withholding academic theses and scholarly writings from publication due to excessive perfectionism and prolonged editorial hesitation.
al-Sambusa fi Kutub al-Turath – al-Nashra al-Rabia (Samosas in Heritage Books – Fourth Edition) is a cultural and bibliographic treatise exploring the historical and textual mentions of the pastry known as sambusa (or sanbusak) across classical Islamic heritage literature.
Ajami Falab Bih ("It Is Foreign, So Play With It") is a contemporary linguistic treatise on the Arabicization of foreign loanwords and the linguistic rules governing borrowed vocabulary.
This specialized grammatical treatise investigates whether compound proper names beginning with the agnomen Abu can retain their nominative form when placed syntactically in accusative or genitive positions by way of verbatim citation (ala al-hikaya). Released electronically in its third edition in Rabi' al-Awwal 1440 AH (November 2018 CE), the monograph gathers and evaluates the perspectives of classical grammarians, hadith scholars, exegetes, and historians across Arabic literature concerning this syntactic and orthographic phenomenon.
This biographical work focuses on Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, presenting an accessible abridgment of an extensive seven-volume hadith and biographical encyclopedia. Completed on 3 Ramadan 1441 AH, the book is organized into twenty-eight thematic markers that address her lineage, virtues, domestic life, relations with the Prophet and his Companions, and death, while omitting lengthy transmission chains to provide a concise reading edition primarily restricted to accepted reports.
This academic study and hadith extraction examines the attributed prophetic reports and companion traditions cited in Kamal al-Din al-Damiri's zoological encyclopedia, Hayat al-Hayawan al-Kubra. Originating as a university master's thesis completed during the academic year 1431–1432 AH (2010–2011 CE), the work focuses on locating primary sources, tracing chains of transmission, and assessing the authenticity of narrations found in entries arranged alphabetically from the letter Ta to Jim.
Published in 1435 AH / 2014 CE, this scholarly monograph examines the methodology, sources, structure, and reception of the encyclopedic zoological work Hayat al-Hayawan by the Shafi'i scholar al-Damiri. The study analyzes al-Damiri's entry structure, his broad conceptualization of animal life, his handling of hadith reports and legal rulings, and his source material, alongside comparisons with earlier zoological literature and a survey of historical translations and abridgments.
This academic study analyzes the commentary method of Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Qastalani in his commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Irshad al-Sari. Issued in an updated digital edition in Rabi' al-Awwal 1440 AH, the work examines al-Qastalani's interwoven commentary style, his reliance on manuscript recensions and earlier reference works, his documentation of textual variants and narrators, and his approach to jurisprudence and theology, accompanied by an introductory survey of printed commentaries on Sahih al-Bukhari.
Inna Allah yaza bil-sultan ma la yaza bil-Quran – takhrijan wa sharhan is a specialized treatise completed in Riyadh on 22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1439 AH. The monograph is devoted to tracing the chains of transmission, textual variants, and jurisprudential and linguistic meanings of the historical maxim: "Truly Allah restrains through authority what He does not restrain through the Quran."
Mustalahat Aimmat al-Hadith al-Khassa wa Yalihi al-Qarain al-Mawsila ila Fahm Maqasidihim fi al-Jarh wa al-Tadil is a contemporary treatise on hadith nomenclature and biographical evaluation (ilm al-jarh wa al-ta'dil). It serves as a compiled survey and systematization of scholarly opinions regarding specialized terminologies and the contextual indicators needed to understand evaluative criticism and accreditation.
Sabab Tasmiyat «al-Shaqqa» bihadha al-Ism is a historical and geographical monograph dedicated to refuting a widespread folk legend concerning the origin of the name of al-Shaqqa, a historical locality northwest of Buraydah in the al-Qasim region. It achieves this by republishing, annotating, and expanding an earlier critical essay written by Sulayman bin Hammud al-Husayni (1357–1430 AH).