At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abdallah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Bukayr, Abu 'Abdallah the money-changer; born 327; he heard Isma'il al-Saffar, Abu 'Umar, Ibn al-Sammak, al-Najad, al-Khuldi and Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i; Ibn Shahin, al-Azhari and al-Tanukhi transmitted from him and al-Daraqutni heard on him. 1
His memory
Al-Azhari said: I used to attend him with great ajza' before him and he would say: which do you prefer — name me a matn from these hadiths and I tell you its isnad, or name me an isnad and I tell you its matn? I would name him the texts and he would give the isnads from memory; Ibn Abi'l-Fawaris spoke of him as... 1
Connections
- Taught
- Al-Daraqutni
People and things also explored
Muwatta 45· Muwatta 46· Muwatta 141· Muwatta 252· Muwatta 412· Muwatta 538· Muwatta 544· Muwatta 557
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد بن بكير الصيرفي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-bukayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.