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Ba Kathir

باكثير

1867 CE · 1283 AH – 1936 CE · 1355 AH

Scholar from the Ba Kathir family of Hadramawt, a family known for its learning and for mosques at Tarim and Seiyun.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Modern Era
Region
Arabia
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Scripture and its sciences

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ba Kathir al-Hadrami, a scholar of the Ba Kathir family in Hadramawt. The family has scholarly achievements and mosques in Tarim and Sayun. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 1283 AH and his death as 1355 AH. 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. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Ba Kathir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/bakathir-muhammad-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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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.