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- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Overview
Hajib ibn Malik ibn Arkin, the trustworthy muhaddith Abu'l-'Abbas al-Darir al-Farghani the Turk, resident of Damascus; he heard Abu 'Umar al-Duri, 'Ali ibn Harb, Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam and their peers, while al-Tabarani, Abu'l-Shaykh, Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar and others narrated from him. Al-Khatib declared him trustworthy and al-Daraqutni said "no harm in him." He died in 306 AH. 2
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 150
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.1348
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