At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni (Hanbali)
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
Life in time
In space
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Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (documented)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Isma'il al-Barmaki was a Hanbali jurist of Baghdad, born in 361 AH and died in 445 AH 1.
His character
Ibn Abi Ya'la says in Tabaqat al-Hanabila that he was devout, ascetic, a jurist, expert in the law of inheritance and other fields, and that he had a teaching circle in the Mansur mosque 1.
His transmission of Fada'il al-Sahaba
The editor names him, with Ibn al-Mudhhib, as one of the two pupils of Abu Bakr al-Qati'i, who transmitted Fada'il al-Sahaba from Abd Allah ibn Ahmad 1. A margin note in the book's unique manuscript, "this hadith is not in al-Barmaki's copy", shows that the manuscript was collated with his copy 1. The title page states that Ibn Nasir transmitted the section from the beginning of the merits of Uthman to the end of the merits of Ali from Abu al-Husayn al-Tuyuri, from Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki, from Ibn Malik al-Qati'i, and that the merits of al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Fatima and Khadija also came through Abu Ghalib al-Qazzaz al-Muqri' from him 2.
Connections
- Taught
- Abu al-Husayn al-Tayuri
- Studied under
- Abu Bakr al-Qati'i
- Member of
- The Hanbali school (madhhab)
- Lived in
- Baghdad
People and things also explored
Abu Tahir Ibn al-Allaf al-Muqri'· Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal· Ibn al-Mudhhib· ابن ناصر الحافظ· Abu al-Husayn al-Tayuri· Baghdad· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom
Sources
- Fada'il al-Sahaba — Ahmad ibn Hanbal (ed. Wasi Allah ibn Muhammad Abbas, Dar Ibn al-Jawzi, 2nd ed. 1420/1999) , p.36
- Fada'il al-Sahaba — Ahmad ibn Hanbal (ed. Wasi Allah ibn Muhammad Abbas, Dar Ibn al-Jawzi, 2nd ed. 1420/1999) , p.54
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-ishaq-al-barmaki/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.
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