At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesHistory-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
The memoriser Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahim ibn Sa'id al-Zuhri al-Barqi al-Misri, a hadith memoriser, historian and jurist. He died in 270 AH (883 CE). 1
His birth date, his teachers and his works are not recorded in the museum's data, and need an additional source.
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din· 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
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Barqi Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Abd Allah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-barqi-abu-bakr-ahmad-ibn-abd-allah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.