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Abu Ya'qub al-Qarrah al-Harawi

أبو يعقوب القراح الهروي

c. 1038 CE · 429 AH

Abu Ya'qub Ishaq al-Qarrah of Herat — the city's hadith master, who heard from more than twelve hundred shaykhs and composed many works; an ascetic of scant means, he died in 429 aged seventy-seven 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abu Ya'qub Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Muhammad al-Sarakhsi then al-Harawi al-Qarrah, hafiz and muhaddith of Herat; he transmitted from Zahir b. Ahmad al-Sarakhsi and a great host — his shaykhs exceeded twelve hundred souls — and composed many works; ascetic, righteous, of little in the world, aged seventy-seven. 1

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 244
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