At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ya'qub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Yazid al-Isfara'ini, a hadith scholar of memory and a jurist from Isfara'in. He became famous for his "Mustakhraj" on the Sahih of Muslim, and he was the first to spread the Shafi'i school in Isfara'in. 1
The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 230 AH and his death as 316 AH; both dates need an additional source.
People and things also explored
Abdullah ibn Abbas· Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi· Habib Ali al-Jifri· Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· Malik ibn Anas· Umar bin Hafiz· Uthman ibn Affan· Zayd ibn Thabit
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 Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-awana-yaqub-ibn-ishaq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.