Abu 'Ali al-Lu'lu'i

أبو علي اللؤلؤي

Sijistan

Abu 'Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Umar al-Lu'lu'i, a student of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and, with Ibn Dasa, one of the two transmitters through whom Abu Dawud's Sunan is handed down; not to be confused with al-Hasan ibn Ziyad al-Lu'lu'i, the companion of Abu Hanifa 1.

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At a glance

Roles
muhaddith
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq

Life in time

875900925950975100010251050 c. c.
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Mun'im ibn Ghulbun · Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi · 'Abd al-Warith ibn Sufyan

In space

Sijistan

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Scripture and its sciences

Summary

Abu 'Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Umar al-Lu'lu'i was a student of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and one of the two transmitters through whom the Sunan is handed down, the other being Ibn Dasa. 1

Not to be confused

He shares the nisba with al-Hasan ibn Ziyad al-Lu'lu'i, the companion of Abu Hanifa; they are two different men, the one an early Hanafi jurist, the other the transmitter of Abu Dawud's Sunan. 1

Not covered here

The Dar Ibn Hazm edition gives neither his birth nor his death; these remain to be taken from the biographical dictionaries.

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Lived in
Sijistan
Studied under
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani

People and things also explored

Birth of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, 202/817· Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani· Abu Dawud al-Sijistani· Sijistan· Ahmad ibn Hanbal· Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa· Sunan Abi Dawud· Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's Sijistan

Sources

  1. Sunan Abi Dawud with al-Khattabi's Ma'alim al-Sunan — prepared and annotated by 'Izzat 'Ubayd al-Da''as and 'Adil al-Sayyid, Dar Ibn Hazm, vol. 1 , p. 10
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Birth of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, 202/817

Abu Ubayd al-Ajurri reported him saying: I was born in the year two hundred and two, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam confirms the year 202/817. His nisba points to the province of Sijistan bordering Sind, not to a village near Basra as some wrongly held.