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Mutarrif ibn Mazin

مطرف بن مازن الصنعاني

809 CE · 191 AH

Mutarrif b. Mazin al-San'ani (d. 191 per al-Baqi b. Qani') — qadi of San'a', transmitter from Ma'mar and Ibn Jurayj to al-Shafi'i; the critics split over his reliability (Ibn Ma'in: 'kadhdhab'; Ibn Hibban and Hajib b. Sulayman defended him) 1.

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Jurist · Scholar
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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700725750775800825850875900925 c. c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abu al-Ayna · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · أبو عبيد القاسم بن سلام · الحكم الأول بن هشام

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