al-Azjani, Nasih al-Din

الأزجاني ناصح الدين

1068 CE · 460 AH – 1149 CE · 544 AH

Scholar from Arjan in Persia who died in 544 AH.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ibn al-Manda'i al-Wasiti · ابن الشجري · Ibn Khumays, al-Husayn ibn Nasr · سبط الخياط · أبو منصور بن الرزاز

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu Bakr Nasih al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Arjani, a scholar from Arjan in Persia. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 460 AH and his death as 544 AH. 1

The museum's data hold no details of his learning or his works, which need an additional source.

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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.440-441
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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.