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Isma'il al-Khatbi the chronicler

إسماعيل الخطبي المؤرخ

c. July 882 CE · Muharram 269 AH – c. August 961 CE · Jumada II 350 AH

Isma'il b. Isma'il b. Banan Abu 'Umar al-Khatbi (269–350), Baghdad's muhaddith-chronicler: trustworthy, accomplished, knowing the days of men and the reports of the caliphs, he composed a large chronicle ordered by the years; he died Jumada II 350 1.

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Roles
Scholar · Historian
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

8508759009259509751000 c. c. c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: al-Naqqash · Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Tabarani · Abu Ibrahim al-Tujibi · Tamam ibn Muhammad al-'Abbasi · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani

Summary

Isma'il ibn Isma'il ibn Bunan, Abu 'Umar al-Khatibi (269–350), muhaddith and historian of Baghdad; reliable, accomplished, noble and discerning, versed in the days of men and the reports of the caliphs, he compiled a great history ordered by years; he died in Jumada II 350. 1

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.8
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