Ibn Hibban al-Busti · Islam Museum

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Roles: Scholar
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Scripture and its sciences

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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

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Hibban al-Busti”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-hibban/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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People

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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.