Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hamid ibn Hashim al-Tawawisi, named after Tawawis, a village eight farsakhs from Bukhara. He related from Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Marwazi and Abd Allah ibn Shirawayh al-Nisaburi, among others, and Nasr ibn Muhammad ibn Gharib al-Shashi and Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Idris related from him. The book gives his death as 344 AH. 1
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
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.6806
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islam.museum contributors. “Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tawawisi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-muhammad-al-tawawisi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.