al-Bazzar Abu al-Tahir Abd al-Wahid ibn Umar

البزار أبو الطاهر عبد الواحد بن عمر

891 CE · 278 AH – 961 CE · 349 AH

Baghdadi reader and grammarian of the late fourth century AH, who died in 349 AH (961 CE); the sources differ on his birth year.

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Roles
Scholar
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Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Al-Isma'ili, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ibrahim · al-Naqqash · Abu Bakr al-Qati'i · Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Tabarani · Abu Ibrahim al-Tujibi

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

Overview

Abu al-Tahir Abd al-Wahid ibn Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Hashim al-Baghdadi al-Bazzar, a Baghdadi reciter and grammarian, among the notables of the second half of the fourth century AH. He died in 349 AH (961 CE). 1

The sources differ on his date of birth, and the museum's data record 278 AH (891 CE). That year needs an additional source.

People and things also explored

Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· 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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr

A philologist and transmitter credited with the vowel-pointing of the Qur'an and the founding of Arabic grammar. His lineage goes back to al-Du'al ibn Bakr ibn Kinana.