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بدء تدوين العلم

بدء تدوين العلم

c. 760 CE · 143 AH

Per al-Dhahabi, in year 143 the scholars of Islam began in this age the codification of hadith, fiqh and tafsir: Ibn Jurayj compiled at Mecca, Malik the Muwatta at Medina, al-Awza'i in Syria, Ibn Abi Uruba, Hammad ibn Salama and others at Basra, Ma'mar in Yemen, Sufyan al-Thawri at Kufa; Ibn Ishaq compiled the Maghazi and Abu Hanifa the fiqh and ra'y, then shortly Hashim, al-Layth and Ibn Lahi'a, then Ibn al-Mubarak, Abu Yusuf and Ibn Wahb. Codification and chapter-ordering spread, and the books of Arabic, language, history and the days of men were written down; before this age the imams spoke from memory or transmitted from sound but unordered sheets {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 424}.

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

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Had participant: Abu Ja'far al-Mansur

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دخول عبد الرحمن الداخل الأندلس· The Building of the Hashimite City at Kufa· وفاة المنصور· خلع عيسى بن موسى من ولاية العهد· The Fall of Qaliqala, 133, and its Rebuilding· The Founding of Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad)· The Building of al-Rafiqa· Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi's Sind

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Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition)

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دخول عبد الرحمن الداخل الأندلس

In year 138 Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya ibn Hisham the Umayyad entered al-Andalus and seized it; his days extended and al-Andalus remained in his descendants' hands past the year 400. A man of learning and justice whose mother was Berber, they said: 'The world is ruled by two sons of Berber women — al-Mansur and Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya.' By year 148 nothing lay outside al-Mansur's sway but al-Andalus, held by Abd al-Rahman, who did not take the title Commander of the Faithful but only amir — as did his sons {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 423-425}.