Abd Allah ibn Ayyub al-Taymi

عبد الله بن أيوب التيمي

824 CE · 209 AH

A hadith scholar of Basra, a client of the Taym Allah clan.

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Roles
muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

725750775800825850875900925 c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Azim al-Hasani · Abu al-Ayna · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Dawud al-Sijistani · Abu Hafs al-Kabir

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Overview

Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ayyub al-Taymi, a hadith scholar of Basra, a client of the Banu Taym Allah ibn Tha'laba. The "Encyclopaedia of the Biographies of Scholars and Men of Letters" gives his death as 209 AH. 1

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People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.