Ali ibn Isma'il al-Abyari · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abdallah al-Yunini · Ajiba bint al-Baqdari · al-Hasan ibn al-Amir Ali al-Murtada al-Alawi · Muzaffar al-Din al-Iylani, the blind prosodist · al-Jaghmini Mahmud ibn Muhammad

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

ScholarTradition

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Overview

Ali ibn Isma'il ibn Ali ibn Hasan ibn Atiyya al-Tilkani al-Abyari, from the people of Abyar in the Gharbiyya in Egypt. He was born in 557 AH and died in 616 AH. Books of biographical dictionaries and of similar names have entries on him. ¹

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People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.