Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani

محمد بن علي الأنصاري الجياني

1098 CE · 492 AH – 1167 CE · 563 AH

The traditionist, Qur'an commentator and reader Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani, born at Jaen in al-Andalus in 492 AH; he travelled east and settled at Damascus, where he taught the Qur'an.

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Roles
Scholar
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Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi · al-Baghdadi Malik al-Nuhat al-Hasan ibn Safi · Abd Allah al-Tusi, khatib of Mosul · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi

Scripture and its sciences

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  • ScholarTradition

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Overview

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn Yasir al-Ansari al-Jayyani, a hadith scholar, commentator and scholar of the readings. He was born in Jaén in al-Andalus in 492 AH (1098 CE), then travelled to the East and settled in Damascus, where he taught the Qur'an. He died in 563 AH (1167 CE). 1

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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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.