At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Summary
Musa ibn Harun (214–294 AH), Abu Imran; his father was known as al-Jamal. He heard from Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Maʿin and others, and leading hadith transmitters and memorisers related from him. He was the imam of the people of his age and a sign of his time in memorisation, in knowledge of the narrators and in precision, extremely scrupulous and of great dignity. 1.
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi said: I heard al-Suri say that he heard Abd al-Ghani ibn Saʿid say: "The best of people in speaking on the hadith of the Messenger of God in their time were Ali ibn al-Madini in his time, Musa ibn Harun in his time, and Ali ibn Umar al-Daraqutni in his time." I also heard most of our shaykhs describe him as having great scrupulousness, asceticism, piety, religiousness, good conduct and an upright way. 1.
He died in Shaʿban and was buried in the cemetery of Bab Harb in Baghdad. 1.
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 190
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