Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, known as Ibn Rahwayh. Al-Mas'udi says that he died in 238 AH. 3
In Ibn al-Nadim
According to Ibn al-Nadim, he was Ibn Ibrahim al-Marwazi, one of the great companions of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and he wrote the book al-Bayan on jurisprudence and a book on exegesis. 4
In Ahmad Amin
Ahmad Amin counts him among the imams of hadith who travelled to the cities to gather their hadith and the exegesis reported in them, alongside Sufyan ibn Uyayna, Waki' ibn al-Jarrah and Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj. 5
Dates
According to al-Shirazi there are two views of his birth: 161 AH or 166 AH. He died in Nishapur in 238 AH. 6
Connections
- Taught
- Dawud ibn Ali al-Isbahani
People and things also explored
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 512
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p. 491
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.512
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.321
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p.491
- Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
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islam.museum contributors. “Ishaq ibn Rahwayh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ishaq-ibn-rahwayh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.