At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Identifiers
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In brief
Al-Nadr b. Shumayl, the imam, memoriser, and polymath Abu al-Hasan al-Mazini of Basra, the philologist and scholar of the people of Marw; his father took him out of Marw and al-Rudwan to Basra when he was five or six years old. He narrated from Hisham b. Urwa, Humayd al-Tawil, Isma'il b. Abi Khalid, Ibn Awn, Hisham b. Hassan, and others of the Kufans and Basrans, while Ishaq b. Rahawayh, Ishaq al-Kawsaj, Muhammad b. Rafi', Abu Muhammad al-Darimi, Sa'id b. Mas'ud al-Marwazi, and many narrated from him. 2
Scholarship and judgeship
Abu Hatim called him "reliable, a man of the sunna"; Ibn al-Mubarak said "he is one of the collectors — none of our companions approached his level"; al-Abbas b. Mus'ab said "he was an imam in Arabic and hadith, and the first to make the sunna manifest in Marw and Khurasan"; he was the most prolific narrator of Shu'ba, composed many works, and held the judgeship of Marw. 3
His death
Al-Nadr died on the last day of 203 AH and was buried on the first day of 204. 3
Connections
- Related to
- Abd Allah al-Ma'mun ibn Harun al-Rashid
People and things also explored
Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· Census of the Descendants of al-Abbas in the Year 200· al-Ma'mun's designation of Ali al-Rida as heir· Clash of Tahir ibn al-Husayn with Ali ibn Isa· The Conquest of Crete· The Accession of Harun al-Rashid· The Division of the Caliphate among al-Rashid's Sons· Kabul Shah's Submission to al-Ma'mun
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 499-501,519
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.292
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.293
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
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islam.museum contributors. “النضر بن شميل”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/nadr-ibn-shumayl/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.