At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · muhaddith · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutionsHistory-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- JuristTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Arab Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Tamim al-Dari (may God be pleased with him)mi al-Tamimi, a Maliki jurist, transmitter of hadith and historian from Qayrawan. The "Encyclopaedia of the Biographies of Scholars and Men of Letters" says that he was born in 251 AH and died in 333 AH. 1
The study here is short because the only source in the data is a summary; a second source is needed for the details of his teachers and books.
People and things also explored
Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-al-arab-al-tamimi-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.