Muslim ibn Ibrahim

مسلم بن إبراهيم

836 CE · 221 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Muslim ibn Ibrahim al-Farahidi of Basra, a teacher of al-Bukhari and Muslim; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Azim al-Hasani · Abu al-Ayna · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Dawud al-Sijistani · Abu Jafar al-Tirmidhi

In brief

Muslim b. Ibrahim, the memoriser and musnad-master Abu Umar al-Azdi al-Farahidi, client of Basra; he heard a single hadith from Ibn Awn and heard from Qurra b. Khalid, Hisham al-Dastuwa'i, Aban b. Yazid, Wahb, Shu'ba, Malik, and Mughira, while Abd al-Dari, Abu Muslim al-Kajji, al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud, Abu Khalifa al-Jumahi, and hosts besides narrated from him. 1

His memory

Ibn Ma'in called him "reliable, trustworthy", Abu Isma'il al-Tirmidhi heard him say "I wrote from a hundred shaykhs without crossing the bridge", and he preserved the hadith of Qurra b. Khalid, Hisham al-Dastuwa'i, and Aban b. Yazid. He died in Safar of 222 AH. 1

Sources

  1. Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.360-361
  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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