Mutarrif ibn al-Shikhkhir

مطرف بن عبد الله بن الشخير

706 CE · 87 AH

Mutarrif b. al-Shikhkhir (d. 87 or later) — the Basran ascetic-faqih whose father had Companionship; al-Shafi'i approved his ruling; the famous story of the man struck dead by his du'a in Basra's mosque 1.

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The Umayyad Period
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr · Amr ibn Dinar

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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