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Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la

يونس بن عبد الأعلى

c. 878 CE · 264 AH

Al-Shafi'i's Egyptian pupil al-Sadafi, died 264 aged ninety-two 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · أبو بكر النيسابوري عبد الله بن محمد بن زياد · Abu Dawud al-Sijistani · أبو جعفر الترمذي

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Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la al-Sadafi, one of the companions of al-Shafi'i and transmitters of his school in Egypt. He died there in the year 264 AH at the age of ninety-two 2.

al-Shirazi reports that he died in the year in which al-Muzani died 3.

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 577
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.577
  3. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
  • Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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