Mus'ab al-Khushani

مصعب الخشني

1139 CE · 535 AH – 1208 CE · 604 AH

Abu Dharr al-Khushani Mus'ab b. Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-Jiyani, grammarian, philologist and Maliki jurist, also known as Ibn Abi Rakab; author and bearer of Arabic's banner in al-Andalus — Seville's khatib, then qadi of Jaen, finally Fez where his works travelled with the caravans; he died at Fez in 604 aged seventy 1. He studied under Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili at Bejaia 2.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb
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Scripture and its sciences

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Overview

Mus'ab ibn Muhammad ibn Mas'ud al-Khushani, a scholar from the Maghrib, who learned from Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili in Bejaia. The Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa al-Udaba' says that he was born in 535 AH (1139 CE) and died in 604 AH (1208 CE). 2

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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. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 22
  2. 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

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