al-Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz

الأشهب بن عبد العزيز

c. 819 CE · 204 AH

Abu Umar al-Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz, the Maliki who studied under Malik and the Medinese and Egyptians; born 150, died in Egypt 204 after al-Shafi'i — 'I never saw anyone more learned than Ashhab were it not for a recklessness in him', and the leadership in Egypt passed to him after Ibn al-Qasim 1.

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Roles
Jurist · muhaddith
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Egypt & Nile · Arabia

Life in time

700725750775800825850875900925 c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Azim al-Hasani · Abd al-Malik al-Maymuni · Abd al-Malik ibn Habib · Abd Al Masih Ibn Naima · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim al-Imam

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Studied under
Malik ibn Anas
Member of
The Maliki school (madhhab)

People and things also explored

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Dinar· Muwatta of Imam Malik· The Maliki school (madhhab)· Malik ibn Anas· The Jurists' Consultation on Cyprus· The woman and the blood at the Kaaba door· Muwatta 23· Muwatta 24

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p.128
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Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Dinar

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Dinar of Medina, among Malik's senior students; he studied with him and 'Ali ibn Harban, and al-Shafi'i said 'I never saw among Malik's young companions anyone more learned than Muhammad ibn Dinar'; he died 182, three years after Malik.