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- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Summary
al-Walid ibn Muslim, Abu al-Abbas of Damascus, a client of the Umayyads, a hadith master and companion of al-Awza'i. He transmitted from al-Awza'i, Sufyan al-Thawri, Malik and al-Layth, and from him al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Baqiyya ibn al-Walid, Abd Allah ibn Wahb and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Scholars agreed on his standing and reliability. 1 He is credited with some seventy books of hadith. 1
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16652
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Walid ibn Muslim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-walid-ibn-muslim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.