Harun ibn Abdallah al-Zuhri

هارون بن عبد الله الزهري

Abu Yahya al-Zuhri of Medina, descended of the line of 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf — among the late hearers of Malik b. Anas, transmitting also from Ibn Zayd b. Aslam, al-Darawardi and Ibn Salama al-Zubayri; Yahya b. Bukayr among his students 1.

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Roles
muhaddith
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Arabia · Levant & Iraq
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Scripture and its sciences

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Abu Yahya al-Zuhri of Medina, of the line of 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf; he heard Malik b. Anas, 'Abd al-Rahman b. Zayd b. Aslam, Hadama al-Zuhri, 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Darawardi and 'Abd Allah b. Salama al-Zubayri, and Yahya b. Bukayr and others transmitted from him; his nasab connects to the house of al-Zuhra, the Banu 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf 1.

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Studied under
Malik ibn Anas

People and things also explored

Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi· Muwatta of Imam Malik· The Jurists' Consultation on Cyprus· The Maliki school (madhhab)· Muwatta 23· Muwatta 24· Muwatta 35· Muwatta 38

Sources

  1. Tarikh Baghdad — al-Khatib al-Baghdadi , j.11 p.13
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Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi

From al-Andalus; he came to Imam Malik in Medina and studied the Muwatta with him. His recension became the most widely read transmission of the book in the Maghrib and al-Andalus.