At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
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- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Abd al-Khaliq al-Basri al-Bazzar, a memoriser and well-known hadith scholar. He was known as al-Bazzar because he worked in flaxseed oil. In his old age he spread his hadith in Isfahan, Baghdad, Egypt, Mecca and Ramla. He was born in 210 AH (825 CE) and died in 292 AH (905 CE). 1
The dates come from one source and need a second.
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
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Bazzar Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bazzar-abu-bakr-ahmad-ibn-amr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.