Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani

أيوب السختياني

c. 749 CE · 131 AH

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Jurist · Scholar
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Sunni
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625650675700725750775800825850 c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr · Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran

Overview

Abu Bakr Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima al-Sakhtiyani, a client, a jurist and scholar from Basra. Al-Shirazi says that he died in 131 AH. 1

Al-Shirazi relates from al-Hasan that he was the master of the youths of Basra, and from Shu'ba that he was the master of the jurists. Malik and Sufyan al-Thawri, among others, took from him. 1

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 247· Muwatta 537· Muwatta 592· Muwatta 686· Muwatta 1046· Muwatta 1257

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محمد بن سيرين· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Abdullah ibn Abbas· Muhammad· Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca)· Muwatta, Book of Funerals· Muwatta, Book of Zakat

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p.47
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محمد بن سيرين

In al-Baladhuri: Muhammad ibn Sirin, son of the Sirin taken captive in Ayn al-Tamr's church with his brothers Yahya, Anas and Ma'bad — Ma'bad the eldest — mawali of Anas ibn Malik al-Ansari.