أبو المحاسن الروياني

أبو المحاسن الروياني

c. 1024 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 415 AH – July 1108 CE · 11 Muharram 502 AH

Shaykh of the Shafi'is, 'the Shafi'i of his time' — he used to say that if al-Shafi'i's books burned he could dictate them from memory; qadi of Tabaristan who built a madrasa at Amol; martyred in Amol's mosque by a Batini just after dictation, Friday 11 Muharram 502 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: الزركاني أبو علي الحافظ · Ibn al-Manda'i al-Wasiti · al-Abiwardi · أبو منصور الخياط مقرئ العميان ببغداد · تميم بن المعز بن باديس

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اغتيالات الباطنية للعلماء سنة 502

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عبيد الله الخطيبي· اغتيالات الباطنية للعلماء سنة 502

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 484
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عبيد الله الخطيبي

Chief qadi of Isfahan; murdered by the Batiniyya at Hamadan in 502.