Al-Jawzajani, Musa ibn Sulayman

الجوزجاني موسى بن سليمان

816 CE · 200 AH

From Jawzjan, a great city in Khurasan, and one of the transmitters of hadith.

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At a glance

Roles
muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

700725750775800825850875900925 c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abd al-Azim al-Hasani · Abu al-Ayna · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hafs al-Kabir

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • TransmitterTradition

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

Overview

Abu Sulayman Musa ibn Sulayman al-Jawzajani, from Jawzajan, which the source describes as a great city in Khurasan. He was a transmitter of hadith. He died in 200 AH (816 CE). 1

What the sources do not give here

The data of this page give neither his teachers nor those who transmitted from him. It needs an additional source.

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

  1. 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.