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Abu Ali b. Duwayra al-Basri

أبو علي بن دويرة البصري

c. 1254 CE · 652 AH

Basra

Shaykh of Basra's Hanbalis (d. 652) — more than a thousand finished the Qur'an under him; his pupil Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman al-Basri succeeded him at the madrasa 1.

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Roles
Scholar · teacher
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Ghayth b. Jamil al-Yamani · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi

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Basra

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Place in the story

    sunni-hanbali (transmitted)

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

    Overview

    Abu 'Ali Ibn Duwayra, shaykh, chief and teacher of Basra's Hanbalis; nations studied under him and more than a thousand people finished the Qur'an upon him — righteous, ascetic, scrupulous — and he transmitted at al-Tirmidhi's mosque by licence of the hafiz Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Akhdar. He died at Basra; after him his pupil Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Umar al-Basri held the teaching at his madrasa. 1

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    Died in
    Basra

    People and things also explored

    Great Mosque of Basra· Qasr Qubadh / the Hajjaj palace at Basra· The Asawira's Settlement at Basra· The Banu Amir sack of Basra (588 AH)· The Basra Bathhouse Permissions· The Basrans' Cry to Abdallah ibn Ali· Battle of Basra· Battle of Basra (871)

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 267
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    People

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    Great Mosque of Basra

    Basra's congregational mosque; Utba ibn Ghazwan built it of reeds in 14 AH — its layout claimed for himself, Nafi' ibn al-Adhra' al-Bahzi, Nafi' ibn al-Harith, and al-Aswad ibn Sari' who first judged in it — Abu Musa rebuilt it in mud-brick with mushab roofing, then Ziyad enlarged and rebuilt it in fired brick and gypsum with teak roofing, a stone minaret, the first maqsura, and columns hauled from Ahwaz's mountain by al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk and his son; he had pebbles strewn lest hand-dusting pass for sunnah, and the enforcers' harshness bred the saying 'lovely the governorship, even over stones'. Al-Mahdi bought the houses of Nafi' ibn al-Harith, Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra and Rabi'a ibn Kallada into it, and the governor's palace was taken in under al-Rashid.