Ibn Bukayr Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad
ابن بكير أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد
938 CE · 327 AH – 998 CE · 388 AH
Baghdadi hadith memorist known only from reports of his transmission and of his teachers; died 388 AH (998 CE).
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Abdallah ibn Bukayr al-Sayrafi al-Baghdadi, a memoriser and hadith scholar of Baghdad. 1
The sources mention only some reports of his transmission of hadith and the names of those from whom he transmitted. He was born in 327 AH (938 CE) and died in 388 AH (998 CE), according to report. 1
People and things also explored
The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)
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 Bukayr Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-bukayr-abu-abd-allah-al-husayn-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.