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Muqatil ibn Hayyan al-Nabati al-Balkhi

مقاتل بن حيان النبطي البلخي

Muqatil ibn Hayyan, Abu Bistam al-Nabati al-Balkhi al-Khurasani, a leading scholar whom Yahya ibn Ma'in and Abu Dawud and others counted as trustworthy. He transmitted from al-Dahhak, Mujahid, Ikrima and al-Sha'bi, and from him transmitted his brother Mus'ab, Alqama ibn Martad and Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak. He fled to Kabul in the days of Abu Muslim, called many to Islam who embraced it, and died in Kabul before 150 AH. 1

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Sunni
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Summary

Muqatil ibn Hayyan al-Nabati al-Balkhi, Abu Bistam, a leading scholar whom Ibn Ma'in and Abu Dawud counted as trustworthy. 1

Works

He fled to Kabul in the days of Abu Muslim, called many to Islam, and died in Kabul before 150 AH. 1

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.2071
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