At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- 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
Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn Isa al-Humaydi al-Asadi al-Makki, a Meccan hadith scholar of the Banu Asad, one of the greatest transmitters of hadith in Mecca, and the teacher of Imam al-Bukhari. 1
His teachers
The "Classes of the Jurists" says that he travelled to Egypt with al-Shafi'i and kept his company until he died, and that he took from Ibn Uyayna. 2
His death
He died in 219 AH (834 CE), according to the encyclopaedia. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i· Sufyan ibn Uyayna
People and things also explored
The authority of the Sunna (hujjiyyat al-sunna)· Ahmad ibn Hanbal· The Jurists' Consultation on Cyprus· The Shafi'i school (madhhab)· Muwatta 77· Muwatta 88· Muwatta 540· Muwatta 584
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.284
- Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Humaydi, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-humaydi-abd-allah-ibn-al-zubayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.