Shurayk ibn Abd Allah al-Nakha'i

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Roles: Jurist · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Umayyad Period
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Hafs Abu Umar ibn Sulayman · Malik ibn Anas · Hammad ibn Zayd · Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi · Al Hasan Ibn Salih Ibn Hayy

Overview

Abu Abd Allah Shurayk ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Shurayk al-Nakha'i, a jurist and scholar. He was born in Bukhara in the year 95 AH, died in Kufa in the year 177 AH, and held the judgeship first in Kufa and then in Ahwaz ¹.

al-Shirazi quotes Ibn Uyayna: "I did not meet anyone in Kufa with a readier answer than Shurayk" ¹.

Sources

Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi), p.46

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