al-Bazzar Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr

البزار أبو بكر أحمد بن عمرو

825 CE · 210 AH – 905 CE · 292 AH

Well-known hadith scholar known as al-Bazzar, who narrated hadith in Isfahan, Baghdad, Egypt and Mecca in his later years; died 292 AH (905 CE).

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Roles
Scholar
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Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

775800825850875900925950 c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: أبو جعفر الترمذي · محمد بن نصر المروزي · Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya · al-Nasa'i · Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad

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موجز

أبو بكر أحمد بن عمرو بن عبد الخالق البصري البزار حافظ من علماء الحديث المعروفين. عُرف بالبزار لعمله ببزر الكتان زيتاً. نشر حديثه في أصبهان وبغداد ومصر ومكة والرملة في شيخوخته. ولد سنة 210هـ (825م) وتوفي سنة 292هـ (905م). 1

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People and things also explored

The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Bazzar Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bazzar-abu-bakr-ahmad-ibn-amr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.