Abu Zur'a al-Razi the Younger

أبو زرعة الرازي الصغير

c. 985 CE · 375 AH

Abu Zur'a al-Razi the Younger, Ahmad b. al-Husayn (d. 375) — hadith hafiz who travelled, gathered and compiled; al-Khatib calls him a precise hafiz who assembled the chapters and the biographies 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah al-Daraki · Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun

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Abu Zur'a al-Razi the Younger, Ahmad b. al-Husayn the hafiz; he travelled, roamed, gathered and composed, hearing Abu Hamid Ibn Bilal, the qadi al-Mahamili and their tier. Al-Khatib said he was "an exacting hafiz who collected the chapters and tarjamas." 1

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 84
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