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زياد البكائي

زياد البكائي

799 CE · 183 AH

Ziyad al-Bakka'i — Kufan third-tier sira scholar (d. 183), the transmitter through whom Ibn Ishaq's sira is chiefly known 1.

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Scholar
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

700725750775800825850875 c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hafs al-Kabir · Abu Nasr al-Tamar · Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam

Overview

Ziyad ibn Abd Allah al-Bakka'i, a Kufan of the third generation of writers of the sira, who died in the year 183 AH according to Ahmad Amin's table 2.

He is a transmitter of the sira of Ibn Ishaq, by which he became known; his relation to him is that of a pupil to a shaykh 3.

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Studied under
محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار

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عاصم بن عمر بن قتادة· يسار جد ابن إسحاق· محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار

Sources

  1. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p. 639
  2. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p.639
  3. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012)
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عاصم بن عمر بن قتادة

Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatada al-Zafari — Medinan Ansari whose grandfather fought at Badr; Umar II ordered him to teach maghazi in the Damascus mosque; a source for Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi.