Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī al-Shāmī al-Ṭabarānī (

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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

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, 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

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, Haramayn Tayyibayn,

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, 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

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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 ''Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat'' ( ar, المعجم الأوسط للطبراني), is one of the famous Hadith book written by great Hadith Narrator Imam Al-Tabarani (874–971 CE, 260–360 AH). Description This book contains almost Nine and half thousan ...

'' – which contains traditions from Abu Hurayra * '' Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir'' – which gave a hadith from each of his masters.

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 {{Islamic-scholar-stub

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