Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan Abu al-Zinad

Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan, Abu al-Zinad, one of the jurists of Medina of the third generation; his father Dhakwan was a brother of Abu Lu'lu'a. ¹

Al-Shirazi says that he came to Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik with the accounts of the diwan of Medina, and that Malik took jurisprudence from him. In Ibn al-Nadim he has a book on the inheritance shares and a book on the opinions of the seven jurists of Medina and their disagreements. ¹

According to al-Shirazi he died in 130 AH. Ibn al-Nadim's text, however, mentions the death of his son Abd al-Rahman in Baghdad in 174 AH, so the matter needs review with an additional source. ²