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al-Sha'bi

الشعبي

c. 722 CE · 104 AH

Rayy

Amir ibn Sharahil al-Sha'bi, Kufa's jurist; entered Rayy with Qutayba ibn Muslim, who asked him what drink he loved most — 'the easiest found and the dearest lost', he said.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr · Al Hasan Ibn Salih Ibn Hayy

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Rayy

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موجز

عامر بن شراحيل الشعبي، فقيه الكوفة. توفي سنة 104هـ في أحد الأقوال، وقيل سنة 107هـ، وقيل إنه ابن اثنتين وثمانين سنة، بحسب الشيرازي في طبقات الفقهاء. 1

أخبار عنه

دخل الري مع قتيبة بن مسلم، وسأله قتيبة عن أحب الشراب إليه، فأجاب بجواب مأثور في كتاب المسعودي. ونادمه عبد الملك بن مروان، وعلمه مهب الرياح. 2

وتذكر المصادر أنه كان مع ابن سيرين حين سأل عمر بن هبيرة في سنة 103هـ. 3

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Traveled to
Rayy
Taught
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla

People and things also explored

The Conquest of Rayy and Qumis· Founding of al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy· اجتياح التتر بلاد الجبل وأذربيجان والكرج· حركة سنباذ المجوسي· al-Hakam ibn 'Utayba· Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla· Rayy

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.87
  3. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.190
  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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The Conquest of Rayy and Qumis

In al-Baladhuri via al-Kalbi from Abu Mikhnaf: two months after Nihawand's battle Umar wrote Ammar ibn Yasir, his Kufa agent, to send Urwa ibn Zayd al-Khayl al-Ta'i to Rayy and Dastaba with eight thousand; the Daylam gathered against him with Rayy's reinforcement, and God gave him victory — he killed and swept through them, left his brother Hanzala ibn Zayd, and came to Ammar asking to be sent to Umar — he having once borne the Bridge's ill news and wishing now to bring joy. Umar saw him and said 'we are God's and to Him we return'; Urwa answered 'rather praise God — we are victorious,' told his tale, and when asked why he did not send word answered 'I left my brother and wished to come myself' — so Umar named him al-Bashir. Urwa's verse: 'I stood forth a teacher to Qadisiyya's people — not every bearer of sorrow teaches.'