Al-Jawzajani, Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub

الجوزجاني إبراهيم بن يعقوب

781 CE · 165 AH – 873 CE · 259 AH

A hadith scholar from Jawzjan, named after Bushanj. The biographical dictionaries give him a full entry.

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Roles
muhaddith · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

750775800825850875900 c. c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: al-Jahiz · Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak al-Khali' · Ibn Abi Bakkar al-Zubayr Abu Ubayd Allah · حرملة بن يحيى · Ishaq ibn Rahwayh

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موجز

أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن يعقوب بن إسحاق السعدي الجوزجاني البوشنجي محدّث من جوزجان، نُسب إلى بوشنج. ولد سنة 165هـ (781م) وتوفي سنة 259هـ (873م). 1

في كتب الطبقات

يذكر المصدر أن أصحاب الطبقات ترجموا له بتفصيل. 1 لا تنقل هذه الصفحة ذلك التفصيل، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

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-Jawzajani, Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jawzajani-ibrahim-ibn-yaqub/. 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.