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Ibn al-Bitr Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad

ابن البطر أبو الخطاب نصر بن أحمد

1007 CE · 398 AH – 1100 CE · 494 AH

Of Baghdad, named after the Gharba quarter and known as al-Bazzaz; died 494 AH (1100 CE).

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · الزركاني أبو علي الحافظ · Abu Mansur al-Khayyat, reciter of the blind in Baghdad · Abu al-Faraj al-Zaz al-Sarkhasi, jurist of Marw · Razaq Allah ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

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

Overview

Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Gharbi al-Baghdadi al-Bazzaz, from Baghdad. He is attributed to the quarter of al-Gharaba and is known as al-Bazzaz (the cloth merchant). He was born in 398 AH (1007 CE) and died in 494 AH (1100 CE). 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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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.