Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- judge · Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Summary
Abu Bakr al-Faryabi, qadi of Dinawar; he roamed the lands east and west seeking knowledge and following the masters — he heard in Khurasan and Transoxiana, settled at Baghdad, and transmitted from Hadiya, Ibn al-Madini, Bundar, Abu Kurayb, Qutayba and multitudes; Abu'l-Husayn ibn al-Munadi, Ahmad ibn Salman al-Najad and Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i narrated from him — reliable and authoritative; he related that when he reached Baghdad he was met with banners and streamers, the people summoned to the Minar street at Bab al-Kufa to hear him, and a great crowd gathered. 1
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 210
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islam.museum contributors. “Ja'far al-Faryabi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jafar-al-faryabi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.