Al-Rabi ibn Ziyad al-Bakri al-Khurasani

الربيع بن زياد البكري الخراساني

759 CE · 142 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Al-Rabi ibn Ziyad al-Bakri al-Khurasani al-Marwazi al-Basri, a figure of the second Islamic century, mentioned by Ibn Sa'd in his biographical classes of the Basrans and Baghdadis; he died in 139 AH.

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Roles
Scholar · Official
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr

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موجز

الربيع بن زياد البكري الخراساني المروزي البصري، من رجال القرن الثاني الهجري. ذكره ابن سعد في طبقات البصريين والبغداديين. 1

الوفاة

توفي سنة 139هـ بحسب «موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء». غير أن البيانات تنبه إلى أن السنة الهجرية لا تطابق الميلادية المطبوعة (759م) على الأرجح. فلا يُعتمد التحويل. 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-Rabi ibn Ziyad al-Bakri al-Khurasani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-rabi-ibn-ziyad-al-bakri-al-khurasani/. 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.