At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesHistory-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Harith ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Usama al-Tamimi al-Baghdadi, a hadith scholar and memoriser and a transmitter of reports from Baghdad, knowledgeable in the Qur'anic readings. He is described as trustworthy (thiqa). 1
Dates
The encyclopaedia says he was born in 186 AH (802 CE) and died in 282 AH (895 CE). 1 These dates come from a single source, so they need an additional source.
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din· 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
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.534
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-abi-usama-al-harith/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.