Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad

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Roles: muhaddith · Historian
Counted among: Sunni
Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya · Bayazid al-Bistami · Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa · Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak al-Khali' · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq

Scripture and its sciences History-writing and social thought

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People and things also explored

Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ahmad ibn Ali· Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din· Ibn Bashkuwal, Khalaf ibn Abd al-Malik· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)· Seeking knowledge· Connectedness of the isnad and proven hearing

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-abi-usama-al-harith/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ahmad ibn Ali

A hadith scholar, historian and memorizer from a village near the Nahr al-Malik, author of the History of Baghdad.