Ibn al-Jazari, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim

ابن الجزري محمد بن إبراهيم

1259 CE · 658 AH – 1338 CE · 739 AH

Originally from Jazirat Ibn Umar, one of the leading authorities on the readings and hadith of his time.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad al-Suhrawardi · Zaynab bint al-Kamal · Shaykh Safi al-Din al-Ardabili · al-Ju'bari Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar · Ibn Jama'a, Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

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

Overview

Shams al-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi Bakr al-Jazari. He originated from Jazirat ibn Umar, and the encyclopaedia describes him as one of the leading figures in the readings of the Qur'an and in hadith in his age. He was born in 658 AH (1259 CE) and died in 739 AH (1338 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.