Masruq ibn al-Ajda'

مسروق بن الأجدع

683 CE · 63 AH

One of the senior Successors (tabi'un), who transmitted hadith and was known for the Qur'anic readings. Several kunyas are given for him in the sources.

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Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Arabia
Identifiers
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr · Abdullah ibn Abbas · A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · al-Ruqi

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Masruq ibn al-Ajda' ibn Malik ibn Umayya al-Hamdani, one of the great Successors who transmitted hadith and paid attention to recitation. 1

His kunyas and his reported lineage vary. 1

Learning and transmission

He received learning from Abdallah ibn Mas'ud. 2

Death

The encyclopaedia gives his death as 63 AH (683 CE), according to a commonly transmitted report. 1

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Studied under
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud

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Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
  2. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
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