Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Asad ibn Musa ibn Ibrahim al-Umawi, known as Asad al-Sunna, a hadith scholar from Egypt in the second century AH. In the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters" he is counted among the transmitters of the Sunna. 1
Notes
- The data are scarce; his biography, death and teachers and pupils need 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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Asad al-Sunna”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/asad-al-sunna-asad-ibn-musa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.