Ibn Abi Al-Dunya (208-281 AH) was a hadith scholar, literary historian, and educator.
He was renowned for his books on hadith, history, asceticism, heart-softening narratives, and religious admonitions.
He grew up in a household of knowledge and religion, and began receiving education from prominent scholars of his time before the age of ten.
Numerous books were written in Quranic exegesis and sciences, hadith sciences (including the six major collections of hadith), jurisprudence and its principles, theology and philosophical theology, Arabic language and literature, history, medicine, pharmacy, and other fields.
It was marked by internal conflicts within the ruling Abbasid family, the increasing influence of non-Arabs in state affairs and their eventual control over them, internal revolts throughout the country, the domination of deviant sects over some caliphs and forcing their views upon them, and enemy raids on Muslim territories.