Abd al-Rahman ibn Hormoz al-A'raj

عبد الرحمن بن هرمز الأعرج

735 CE · 117 AH

The Successor traditionist Abd al-Rahman ibn Hormoz al-A'raj, who met several Companions and transmitted from them; his best-known kunya is Abu Dawud.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr · Al Hasan Ibn Salih Ibn Hayy

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

عبد الرحمن بن هرمز الأعرج، كنيته المشهورة أبو داود، محدث من التابعين. أدرك عدداً من الصحابة وروى عنهم. وفاته سنة 117هـ. 1

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 5· Muwatta 29· Muwatta 33· Muwatta 40· Muwatta 71· Muwatta 170· Muwatta 177· Muwatta 233· Muwatta 256· Muwatta 257· Muwatta 273· Muwatta 290· Muwatta 304· Muwatta 343· Muwatta 355· Muwatta 382· Muwatta 441· Muwatta 442· Muwatta 460· Muwatta 472· Muwatta 486· Muwatta 538· Muwatta 550· Muwatta 566· Muwatta 568· Muwatta 588· Muwatta 642· Muwatta 644· Muwatta 645· Muwatta 646· Muwatta 647· Muwatta 2780· Muwatta 2816· Muwatta 2834· Muwatta 2841· Muwatta 2842· Muwatta 2853· Muwatta 825· Muwatta 828· Muwatta 860· Muwatta 861· Muwatta 1103· Muwatta 1106

People and things also explored

Abu Hurayra· Muhammad· Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan Abu al-Zinad· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Al Bukhari· Malik ibn Anas· Muwatta, Book of Miscellaneous (al-jami')

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Rahman ibn Hormoz al-A'raj”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-rahman-ibn-hormoz-al-araj/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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