At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
In brief
Abd al-Rahman b. Hurmuz al-A'raj of Medina, mawla of Muhammad b. Rabi'a b. al-Harith b. Abd al-Muttalib b. Hashim — his clientage is also given to the Makhzum — among the qur'an-readers and hadith men of the Medinans. 1
His reading and codices
He heard Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him), Abu Sa'id, Abdallah b. Malik b. Buhayna, and a group, and took the reading by presentation from Abu Hurayra, Ibn Abbas, and Abdallah b. Ayyash b. Abi Rabi'a; he transcribed the Qur'an, taught it, and copied codices, and Nafi' b. Abi Nu'aym recited to him. Ibn Lahi'a reports through Abu al-Nadr that he was the first to set down Arabic orthography and was the most knowing of men in Quraysh's genealogy. 1
Narrators from him and his journey
Al-Zuhri, Abu al-Zinad, Salih b. Kaysan, Yahya b. Sa'id al-Ansari, Abdallah b. Lahi'a, and others narrated from him; among his famous mursal reports is his saying that people inherited a Ramadan in which the unbelievers were cursed, and that a reader reciting al-Baqara in eight rak'as who then stood twelve was seen by people as having lightened it. Late in life he travelled to Egypt and died garrisoned at Alexandria in 117 AH on the dating of Mus'ab al-Zubayri and a group, having passed eighty years. 2
Connections
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 5· Muwatta 29· Muwatta 33· Muwatta 40· Muwatta 71· Muwatta 170· Muwatta 177· Muwatta 233· Muwatta 256· Muwatta 257· Muwatta 273· Muwatta 290· Muwatta 304· Muwatta 343· Muwatta 355· Muwatta 382· Muwatta 441· Muwatta 442· Muwatta 460· Muwatta 472· Muwatta 486· Muwatta 538· Muwatta 550· Muwatta 566· Muwatta 568· Muwatta 588· Muwatta 642· Muwatta 644· Muwatta 645· Muwatta 646· Muwatta 647· Muwatta 2780· Muwatta 2816· Muwatta 2834· Muwatta 2841· Muwatta 2842· Muwatta 2853· Muwatta 825· Muwatta 828· Muwatta 860· Muwatta 861· Muwatta 1103· Muwatta 1106
People and things also explored
Abu Hurayra· Muhammad· Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan Abu al-Zinad· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Al Bukhari· Malik ibn Anas· Muwatta, Book of Miscellaneous (al-jami')
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.2248
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.2248-2249
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Rahman ibn Hormoz al-A'raj”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-rahman-ibn-hormoz-al-araj/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.