Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi
أبو جعفر الطحاوي
239 AH – 321 AH
A Hanafi hadith scholar and jurist of Egypt from the tribe of Azd, said to have taken knowledge from about three hundred teachers; author of Mushkil al-Athar, Ma'ani al-Athar and the Tahawi creed.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist · theologian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Place in the story
sunni-hanafi (documented)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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Connections
People and things also explored
Sharh al-Tahawiyya fi al-Aqida al-Salafiyyaal-Aqida al-Tahawiyya (the Tahawi creed)The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sinThe hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoningThe ten promised ParadiseSigns of the HourBid'a (religious innovation)Love of the Companions and how to speak of them (in the Tahawi creed)
Sources
- al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-tahawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.