Preachers of Egypt during the Fatimid period, Banu Abd al-Sami`, as a model

Abstract

    This research deals with the family of Banu Abd al-Sami’ in Egypt and its role during the Fatimid era, and it is one of the families that came to Egypt and inherited several sciences such as: the science of hadith and jurisprudence, and this explains to us how they occupied various positions in addition to the position of rhetoric and for a period of time and what they obtained from a privileged position in the state Fatimid

From this glimpse available to us about the Banu Abd al-Sami’, we can say about them that they are among the personalities whose members worked in the judiciary in Iraq and Egypt, the emirate of Hajj and the Imamate of the Two Holy Mosques, and the preachers of Egypt for 64 years during the Fatimid era. With qualities and virtues, they had competitors and envious people for their position, but they were able to compete with them, and when the Ikhshidid state fell and Egypt entered under the authority of the Fatimids, the Banu Abd al-Sami’ continued to preach to the Fatimids almost until the era of the Fatimid Caliph al-Zahir to honor the religion of God (411-427 AH / 1020-1035 AD)