At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Surayj ibn Yunus ibn Ibrahim, the imam, exemplar and hafiz Abu al-Harith al-Marwazi then of Baghdad; he narrated from Isma'il ibn Ja'far, Hushaym ibn Bashir, 'Abbad ibn 'Abbad, Yusuf ibn al-Majishun and their peers, while Muslim, al-Bukhari through intermediaries, al-Nasa'i, Baqi ibn Makhlad, Abu Zur'a, Abu'l-Qasim al-Baghawi and many others narrated from him. Ahmad ibn Hanbal called him "a man of good," and Salih Jazara "most trustworthy, a worshipper." 1
Standing
Al-Dhahabi says Surayj was one of the worshipful imams, a man of spiritual states and a head of the Sunna. Al-Bukhari dates his death to Rabi' I, 235 AH. 1
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.1771
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Surayj ibn Yunus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/surayj-ibn-yunus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.