Amr ibn Dinar

عمرو بن دينار

666 CE · 46 AH – 743 CE · 126 AH

One of the senior Successors, and the shaykh of the Meccan sanctuary in his time; among the great transmitters of hadith.

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Roles
muhaddith · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Arabia
Review
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Life in time

625650675700725750775800 c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Sulayman ibn Tarkhan al-Taymi · Yazid ibn al-Qa'qa' · عطاء الخراساني · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Qatada Ibn Diama

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • TransmitterTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

عمرو بن دينار، أبو محمد الجمحي المكي الأثرم، من التابعين وشيخ الحرم المكي في عصره، ومن رواة الحديث الكبار. وُلد سنة 46هـ ومات سنة 126هـ. 1

ويذكر الكتاب أنه قال إنه ما رأى مثل طاوس، في سياق ذكر علماء البصرة ومكة في عهد عمر بن عبد العزيز. 2

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 2620

People and things also explored

Qadar (divine decree)· Muwatta, Book of Miscellaneous (al-jami')· Malik ibn Anas· Muwatta 2620· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
  2. الدولة الأموية: عوامل الازدهار وتداعيات الانهيار — علي محمد الصلابي (الجزء الثاني، 2005), p.282
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islam.museum contributors. “Amr ibn Dinar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/amr-ibn-dinar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Qadar (divine decree)

The Tahawi creed's belief that God created by His knowledge and decreed measures and terms, that all things happen by His will and judgement, with a warning against probing the secret of the decree.