At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Hasan Khaythama ibn Sulayman ibn Haydara al-Qurashi al-Atrabulusi, a hadith scholar and memoriser, whom the encyclopaedia describes as the chief narrator (musnad) of Syria in his age. He was born in 250 AH and died in 343 AH. 1
He travelled in search of hadith among the frontier towns, Iraq and the Hijaz, and died in Tripoli in Syria. 1
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
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Khaythama ibn Sulayman al-Atrabulusi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/khaythama-ibn-sulayman-al-atrabulusi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.