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Overview
Ali ibn Ja'far al-Madini, one of the memorisers of hadith. Al-Mas'udi says that he died in Samarra on Monday, three nights before the end of Dhu al-Hijja 234 AH, at the age of seventy-two years and some months. 2
His books and teachers
Ibn al-Nadim calls him Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ja'far al-Madini, and lists among his books "al-Musnad with its defects", "al-Mudallisin", "al-Du'afa'", "al-'Ilal" and "al-Asma' wa al-Kuna". 3 The "Classes of the Jurists" says that he wrote from al-Shafi'i. 4
The two sources differ on the month of his death: Dhu al-Hijja according to al-Mas'udi, and Dhu al-Qa'da according to Ibn al-Nadim.
Connections
- Studied under
- Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
People and things also explored
The authority of the Sunna (hujjiyyat al-sunna)· The Shafi'i school (madhhab)· Muwatta 77· Muwatta 88· Muwatta 540· Muwatta 584· Muwatta 587· Muwatta 615
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 512
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.512
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p.322
- Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Madini”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-jafar-al-madini/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.