Mutar al-Warraq

مطر الوراق

Mutar ibn Tahman, Abu Raja al-Khurasani, who settled in Basra; a learned worker who wrote out Qur'an copies and was skilled at it. He narrated from Anas ibn Malik (may God be pleased with him), al-Hasan, Ibn Buraydah, Shahr ibn Hawshab and Bakr ibn Abd Allah; Shu'ba, al-Husayn ibn Waqid, Ibrahim ibn Tahman, Hammad ibn Salama and Hammad ibn Zayd narrated from him. Al-Ijli calls him a truthful Basran, and Ibn Sa'd says there was weakness in his hadith ¹. The book gives his death as 129 AH.

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Roles: Scholar
Era: The Umayyad Period
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Mutar ibn Tahman, Abu Raja al-Khurasani, who settled in Basra; a learned worker who wrote out Qur'an copies and was skilled at it. He narrated from Anas ibn Malik, al-Hasan, Ibn Buraydah, Shahr ibn Hawshab and Bakr ibn Abd Allah; Shu'ba, al-Husayn ibn Waqid, Ibrahim ibn Tahman, Hammad ibn Salama and Hammad ibn Zayd narrated from him. Al-Ijli calls him a truthful Basran, and Ibn Sa'd says there was weakness in his hadith ¹. The book gives his death as 129 AH.

Sources

al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.13762-13763

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