At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Transmitter
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Wahb ibn Masarra, Abu al-Hazm, was a Maliki jurist of al-Andalus, named after Wadi al-Hijara, a town there. He was a jurist, a hadith transmitter, a hafiz and an expert in the men who transmitted hadith. 1
Teachers and students
In Cordova he heard from Ibn Wadah, Ubayd Allah, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Faradi, Ahmad ibn Khalid, Muhammad ibn Qasim and Qasim ibn Asbagh, among others. Abu Muhammad al-Qali'i and Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Ajuz transmitted from him. 1
Standing
Ibn Farhun described him as a reliable and trustworthy imam, and in his lifetime people travelled to him for learning. 1
Work and death
His listed work is «The Sunna and the Affirmation of Qadar and the Vision». The book gives his death as 346 AH. 1
People and things also explored
The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· Islamic eschatology· Reason and heart· The Throne (al-Arsh)· Al-din al-qayyim (the upright religion)· Absolute unseen (al-ghayb al-mutlaq)· «Be, and it is» (kun fa-yakun): creation by command, not by a mould
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.6457
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islam.museum contributors. “Wahb ibn Masarra (Andalusian Maliki jurist)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/wahb-ibn-masarra/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.