al-Azraqi

الأزرقي

Meccan historian of the third century AH who wrote on the history and monuments of Mecca.

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Roles
Historian
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

أبو الوليد محمد بن عبد الله بن أحمد الأزرقي مؤرخ مكي من أهل القرن الثالث الهجري، صنف في أخبار مكة وآثارها. 1

سنتا مولده ووفاته غير مدونتين في بيانات المتحف، وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

People and things also explored

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.526-528
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Azraqi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-azraqi-muhammad-ibn-abd-allah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.