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Abu Ali b. Duwayra al-Basri

أبو علي بن دويرة البصري

c. 1254 CE · 652 AH

Basra

Shaykh of Basra's Hanbalis (d. 652) — more than a thousand finished the Qur'an under him; his pupil Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman al-Basri succeeded him at the madrasa 1.

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Roles
Scholar · teacher
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Ghayth b. Jamil al-Yamani · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi

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Basra

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Place in the story

    sunni-hanbali (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Overview

    Abu 'Ali Ibn Duwayra, shaykh, chief and teacher of Basra's Hanbalis; nations studied under him and more than a thousand people finished the Qur'an upon him — righteous, ascetic, scrupulous — and he transmitted at al-Tirmidhi's mosque by licence of the hafiz Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Akhdar. He died at Basra; after him his pupil Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Umar al-Basri held the teaching at his madrasa. 1

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    Died in
    Basra

    People and things also explored

    Great Mosque of Basra· Qasr Qubadh / the Hajjaj palace at Basra· The Asawira's Settlement at Basra· The Basra Bathhouse Permissions· The Basrans' Cry to Abdallah ibn Ali· Building of al-Mughitha· The Bukharans' Settlement at Basra· The Basra Dar al-Imara Saga

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 267
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    People

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    Great Mosque of Basra

    Basra's congregational mosque; Utba ibn Ghazwan built it of reeds in 14 AH — its layout claimed for himself, Nafi' ibn al-Adhra' al-Bahzi, Nafi' ibn al-Harith, and al-Aswad ibn Sari' who first judged in it — Abu Musa rebuilt it in mud-brick with mushab roofing, then Ziyad enlarged and rebuilt it in fired brick and gypsum with teak roofing, a stone minaret, the first maqsura, and columns hauled from Ahwaz's mountain by al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk and his son; he had pebbles strewn lest hand-dusting pass for sunnah, and the enforcers' harshness bred the saying 'lovely the governorship, even over stones'. Al-Mahdi bought the houses of Nafi' ibn al-Harith, Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra and Rabi'a ibn Kallada into it, and the governor's palace was taken in under al-Rashid.