Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani (Ibrahim ibn Dinar)

أبو حكيم النهرواني

Abu Hakim Ibrahim ibn Dinar al-Nahrawani, a Hanbali jurist and one of the imams of Baghdad. ¹ Al-Dhahabi described him as a model scholar, an ascetic, scrupulous, virtuous and gentle imam, the final authority in the law of inheritance shares. ¹ He heard Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Allaf and Abu al-Qasim ibn Bayan, and Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn al-Akhḍar and Abu Nasr Umar ibn Muhammad transmitted from him. ^{1 2} He began a commentary on Abu al-Khattab al-Kalwadhani's al-Hidaya without completing it, and Ibn al-Jawzi reports that he read the Qur'an to him and that al-Samarri, author of al-Mustaw'ib, studied with him and quoted him in his works. ² The cited sources are Siyar a'lam al-nubala' and al-Maqsad al-arshad. ² The heading prints two figures, 556 and 481, without saying which is the birth and which the death.