At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesLinguistics
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Faraj al-Mu'afa ibn Zakariyya ibn Yahya ibn Humayd al-Nahrawani, known as al-Jurayri and as Ibn Tarar, a scholar from Nahrawan. He wrote on language and hadith. He was born in 305 AH (917 CE) and died in 390 AH (1000 CE). 1
What the sources do not give here
The data of this page do not give the titles of his books. It 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
- 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-Jurayri, al-Mu'afa ibn Zakariyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jurayri-al-maafa-ibn-zakariyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.