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أبو عمر الطلمنكي أحمد بن محمد المعافري

أبو عمر الطلمنكي أحمد بن محمد المعافري

c. 1038 CE · 429 AH

Abu Umar Ahmad al-Talamanke al-Ma'afiri of Cordoba — the city's master reciter and hadith scholar, expert in every Qur'anic science; Ibn Bashkuwal called him 'an unsheathed sword against people of whims and innovations'. Ninety years old, he died in 429 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 243-244
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