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Abu Thawr

أبو ثور

854 CE · Muharram 240 AH

A great Baghdad imam among the foremost companions of al-Shafi'i; he transmitted from Sufyan b. 'Uyayna, Ibn 'Uyayna's peers, Waki', 'Abd al-Rahman b. Mahdi and al-Shafi'i himself, and Muslim (outside the Sahih), Abu Dawud, Ibn Maja and al-Baghawi transmitted from him. Ahmad b. Hanbal said 'I have known him for the Sunna for fifty years; in my view he stands in the skin of Sufyan al-Thawri' and would tell questioners 'ask Abu Thawr'; al-Nasa'i called him 'one of the jurists, trustworthy'. Al-Khatib relates that he began in the ra'y method until al-Shafi'i came to Baghdad, whereupon he attached himself to him and turned to hadith. He died in Safar 240 1.

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Roles
Jurist · hadith-scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Azim al-Hasani · Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova) · Abu al-Ayna · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq

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Overview

Ibrahim b. Khalid b. al-Yaman, Abu Thawr al-Kalbi of Baghdad — a leading companion of al-Shafi'i. He began in the ra'y method of the Iraqis, then attached himself to al-Shafi'i on his arrival in Baghdad and turned to hadith. Ahmad b. Hanbal said "I have known him for the Sunna for fifty years; in my view he stands in the skin of Sufyan al-Thawri," and al-Nasa'i called him "one of the jurists, trustworthy". He died in Safar 240 AH 1.

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Studied under
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i

People and things also explored

The authority of the Sunna (hujjiyyat al-sunna)· Ahmad ibn Hanbal· The Shafi'i school (madhhab)· Muwatta 77· Muwatta 88· Muwatta 540· Muwatta 584· Muwatta 587

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.1 p.228
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