Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī al-Shāmī al-Ṭabarānī (
Arabic
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: أبو القاسم سليمان بن أحمد بن أيوب بن مطير اللَّخمي الشامي الطبراني) (AH 260/c. 874 CE - AH 360/971 CE)
was an Arab
hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...
scholar and jurist.
Biography
Imam Al Tabarani was born in 260H in
Tabariya,
ash-Sham. He narrated hadiths from more than one thousand scholars (''Muhaditheen''). He travelled extensively to many regions to quench his thirst of knowledge which includes
Syria,
Haramayn Tayyibayn,
Yemen
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,
Egypt
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,
Baghdad
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,
Kufa
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,
Basra
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,
Isfahan, etc. He wrote many hadith books (see below). Sayyiduna Abul ‘Abbas Ahmad Bin Mansoor states: I have narrated three hundred thousand Ahadees from Imam Tabarani. He lived most of the final years of his life in
Isfahan,
Iran
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and died there on 27th Dhul-Qa’da, AH 360.
Students
From amongst his students were: Ahmad bin 'Amr bin 'Abdul-Khaliq al-Basri and Abu Bakr al-Bazzar.
Works
He is known primarily for three works on hadith:
* ''
Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr'' – from which he excluded the traditions of Abu Hurayra
* ''
Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat'' – which contains traditions from Abu Hurayra
* ''
Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir'' – which gave a hadith from each of his masters.
See also
*
Tabari (name)
*
Majma al-Zawa'id
''Majmu' al-Zawa'id wa Manba' al-Fawa'id'' ( ar, مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد) is a secondary Sunni hadith collection written by Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami (1335–1404 CE/735–807 AH). It compiles the 'unique' h ...
References
External links
Biodata at MuslimScholars.info
870s births
971 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
9th-century Arabs
10th-century Arabs
Sunni Muslim scholars
Islamic philosophers
Hadith compilers
10th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
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