The patronage of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Radi Billah (d. 329 AH/940 CE) For science and scholars

in the fourth century АН: Historical-analytical study

Abstract

Received: 2026 / 04 / 09
Revision: 2026 / 05 / 03
Accepted: 2026 / 05 / 25
Published: 2026 / 09 / 30

It is clear that the Abbasid caliphate extended its rule for more than five centuries, specifically (524) years, during which (37) caliphs ruled, all of them descendants of Imam Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, the uncle of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him peace), and the order of the caliph al-Radi was in a chain The Abbasid caliphs are the (20) among them, and when he came to power, the Abbasid caliphate was living in very turbulent political, military, economic and social conditions. Despite that situation Troubled on the internal level of the caliphate, but the question of the caliph's interest in supporting science and scholars was not affected by those circumstances.

Where he supported and encouraged scholars to compose and compose, especially interest in the noble hadith witnessed at quantum leap in the third decade of the fourth century AH, especially during his reign, when the era witnessed the writing of the famous book Al-Sahih, and many scholars known for their knowledge and competence appeared in several fields of literary and jurisprudential sciences. Grammar, language, hadith and history. And settled the foundations of the four schools of jurisprudence. The aim of this study is to introdu