Ibn_Faradi
Ibn al-Faradi
Andalusian historian
Abū al-Walīd ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Naṣr ibn al-Faraḍī al-Azdī al-Qurṭubī ,[1] (21 December 962 – 20 April 1013)[1][2] best known as Ibn al-Faraḍī,[1][2] was an Andalusian[3] historian, chiefly known for his Tarikh ulama al-Andalus, a biographical dictionary about religious scholars from al-Andalus.[2] He was a faqīh (jurist) and a muhaddith (scholar of hadith).[1]