al-Muzani · Islam Museum

Skip to content

Depth

At a glance

Identifiers: Wikidata
Review: Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova) · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu al-Ayna · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani

Overview

Abu Ibrahim Isma'il ibn Yahya al-Muzani, author of the "Mukhtasar", one of the companions of al-Shafi'i and of those who took knowledge from him. ¹

His death

He died in Egypt on Thursday, six nights before the end of Rabi al-Awwal 264 AH. ¹ Al-Shirazi agrees that he died in Egypt in 264 AH. ²

His relation with al-Shafi'i

The data cite al-Shirazi that he was one of the companions of al-Shafi'i, and that al-Shafi'i said of him: "the champion of my school". ²

Connections

Explore the connections

Studied under: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
Taught: Uthman ibn Said al-Anmati· زكريا بن يحيى الساجي

People and things also explored

al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman· The authority of the Sunna (hujjiyyat al-sunna)· The Shafi'i school (madhhab)· Muwatta 77· Muwatta 88· Muwatta 540· Muwatta 584· Muwatta 587

Sources

Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 576-577
Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)

Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “al-Muzani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-muzani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman

Al-Shafi'i's muezzin-companion, the chain for his death-account.