Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili

ابن خير الإشبيلي

1108 CE · 502 AH – 1179 CE · 575 AH

An Andalusian scholar from Seville, a client of Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ya'mur, and a hadith transmitter known for a well-known index of his transmissions.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abu Musa al-Madini · Shaykh Ahmad al-Rifa'i · Abd Allah al-Tusi, khatib of Mosul

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • TransmitterTradition

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

Overview

Muhammad ibn Khayr ibn Umar ibn Khalifa al-Ishbili, an Andalusian scholar from Seville, client of Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ya'mur. He was a hadith scholar and the author of a well-known index of transmissions. He was born in 502 AH (1108 CE) and died in 575 AH (1179 CE). 1

What is reported of him

His teachers and the content of his index need an additional source.

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.