At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · judge · Historian
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali (may God be pleased with him), Abu Hamid al-Marwazi, known as Ibn al-Tabari (d. 377 AH), a Hanafi jurist, chief judge of Khurasan and historian. 1
Baghdad, then Khurasan, then Baghdad
His father was from Hamadhan and heard from a group of hadith transmitters. He was one of the devoted worshippers and precise scholars, a memoriser of hadith and an expert in transmitted reports. He came to Baghdad in his youth, studied jurisprudence there, and studied the school of Abu Hanifa under Abu al-Hasan al-Karkhi. He then returned to Khurasan, where he was appointed chief judge, and he wrote books and history. He later entered Baghdad when his age had advanced, transmitted hadith there, and people wrote from him through al-Daraqutni's selection; al-Barqani related from him and declared him trustworthy. He died in Marw in Safar of the year 377 AH, though some say 373 AH. 1
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Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.137
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Tabari al-Marwazi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-tabari-al-marwazi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.