Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit

خارجة بن زيد بن ثابت

c. 718 CE · 100 AH

Medina

Among the jurists of Medina in the second generation; with Talha ibn Abd Allah ibn Awf he was consulted in his time for inheritance and documents, as Shirazi reports.

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Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

625650675700725750775800 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr · Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran

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Medina

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Scripture and its sciences

Overview

Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit (may God be pleased with him), the jurist and imam son of an imam, one of the Seven Illustrious Jurists, Abu Zayd al-Ansari al-Najjari of Medina and the most eminent of his brothers Isma'il, Sulayman, Yahya and Sa'd; his maternal grandfather was Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' al-Ansari, one of the noble nuqaba'. 1

Transmission

He narrated from his father, his uncle Yazid, Usama ibn Zayd (may God be pleased with him), his mother Umm Sa'd and others. He died in 99 or 100 AH. 1

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Lived in
Medina
Mentioned in
Muwatta 1593· Muwatta 924

People and things also explored

Salim ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar· Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari· Zayd ibn Thabit· The Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)· The Prophet's request for a writing in his last illness· Umar's Friday sermon on the stoning verse and on Abu Bakr's pledge· Uthman's standardization of the mushaf· Abdullah ibn Mas'ud

Sources

  1. Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.1590
  • Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
  • The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005)
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