al-Harbi (Ibrahim)

الحربي

285 AH

Author of Gharib al-Hadith and Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, and one of those who transmitted Imam Ahmad's school from him. Ibn al-Jawzi places his death in 285 and preserves his famed austerity: born 198 at Marw, he wore a clean shirt and a soiled izar without ever thinking them equal, walked all Baghdad with one sandal-strap broken for ten years telling no one of his ailments, and lived thirty years on a loaf or two a day — when asked how he had gathered his books he answered 'with my flesh and blood' ¹.

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Roles: Scholar · writer
Counted among: Sunni (Hanbali)
Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Summary

Ibrahim ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Harbi, author of Gharib al-hadith and Dala'il al-nubuwwa, and one of the transmitters of Ahmad's school from him ². He died in 285 AH ².

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

al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 296-297
al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p. 411

al-Alam — al-Zirikli

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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.