Al-Biqa'i, Ibrahim ibn Umar · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan · al-Burshani Ibrahim ibn Muhammad · al-Shihab ibn al-Hayyim 'al-Qa'im' · Sayf al-Din al-Baktmari

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

ScholarTradition

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Overview

Ibrahim ibn Umar ibn Hasan, Abu al-Hasan al-Biqai al-Ribati, a Shafi'i scholar and hadith scholar from al-Biqa. He was born in 809 AH (1406 CE) and died in 885 AH (1480 CE). ¹

His best-known book is "Nazm al-Durar fi Tanasub al-Ayat wa al-Suwar". ¹

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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

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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.