أبو عثمان الصابوني إسماعيل بن عبد الرحمن النيسابوري

أبو عثمان الصابوني إسماعيل بن عبد الرحمن النيسابوري

c. 1057 CE · Safar 449 AH

Shaykh al-Islam Abu Uthman al-Sabuni Isma'il b. Abd al-Rahman al-Nisaburi — the Shafi'i preacher-exegete who first sat to preach aged ten, with the era's imams (al-Sa'luki, al-Farawi, al-Isfarayini) attending and marvelling; preached seventy years, led the jami' twenty; 'the sword of the Sunna and the asp of the innovators'; author of al-Fusul fi al-usul; died Safar 449 aged seventy-seven 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 290-291
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