At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Overview
'Asim ibn Abi'l-Najud, the great imam and Reader of the age Abu Bakr al-Asadi, their client of Kufa; his father's name was Bahdala. He was born in Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan's governorship. 1
Teaching
He read the Qur'an under Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami and Zirr ibn Hubaysh al-Asadi, and narrated from them and from Abu Wa'il, Mus'ab ibn Sa'd and other senior Successors — he counts among the junior Successors. He presided over Qur'an teaching in Kufa for a time: Abu Bakr ibn 'Ayyash, Hafs ibn Sulayman, al-A'mash and many more read under him, and Shu'ba, al-Thawri, Hammad ibn Salama, Sufyan ibn 'Uyayna and others narrated from him. He died around 165 AH. 1
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.2097
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Asim ibn Abi al-Najud”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/asim-ibn-abi-al-najud/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.