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شرحبيل بن سعد

شرحبيل بن سعد

741 CE · 123 AH

Shurahbil ibn Sa'd — a Medinan mawla of the Ansar and one of the four foundation-writers of the maghazi genre 1.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Arabia
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · 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 · Al Hasan Ibn Salih Ibn Hayy

Overview

Shurahbil ibn Sa'd, a client of the Ansar in Medina. Ahmad Amin counts him among the first pillars of writing the campaigns (maghazi), together with Aban ibn Uthman, Urwa ibn al-Zubayr and Wahb ibn Munabbih 2. Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm reported from him in the biography 3.

Death

He died in the year 123 AH, according to Duha al-Islam 3.

Sources

  1. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p. 639-642
  2. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p.639-642
  3. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p.639
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