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At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
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Overview
Zurara ibn Awfa, the great imam and judge of Basra Abu Hajib al-'Amiri, one of the luminaries; he heard 'Imran ibn Husayn, Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) and Ibn 'Abbas, while Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani, Qatada, Muhriz ibn Hakim, the Bedouin 'Arif and others narrated from him. Al-Nasa'i and others declared him trustworthy. He died in 93 AH. 1
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.1718
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Zurara ibn Awfa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zurara-ibn-awfa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.