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Amr ibn Abi Salama

عمرو بن أبي سلمة

Amr ibn Abi Salama, Abu Hafs al-Tinnisi al-Dimashqi, a mawla of the Banu Hashim, who narrated from al-Awza'i and others; his son Sa'id, Abd Allah al-Shafi'i and Ahmad ibn Salih narrated from him. Al-Walid ibn Bakr called him one of the leading transmitters, al-Saji and Ibn Ma'in weakened him, and Ibn Hibban counted him among the trustworthy. The page gives his death as 214 AH on one account. 1

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Scripture and its sciences

Overview

Amr ibn Abi Salama al-Tinnisi al-Dimashqi, a mawla of the Banu Hashim, who narrated from al-Awza'i. 1

Assessment

Al-Walid ibn Bakr counted him among the leading transmitters; al-Saji and Ibn Ma'in weakened him, and Ibn Hibban listed him among the trustworthy. 1

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. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.3492
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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.