Biography:Al-Tabarani

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Short description: Muslim scholar and traditionist (c. 873–970)
Aṭ-Ṭabarānī
ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ
Personal
Born873/874 CE / 260 AH
Died970/971 CE / 360 AH
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanbali
CreedAthari
Main interest(s)Narrations
Notable work(s)
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat
  • Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir
Occupation
Muslim leader

Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلقَاسِم سُلَيْمَان بْن أَحْمَد بْن أَيُّوب بْن مُطَيِّر ٱللَّخْمِيّ ٱلشَّامِيّ ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ) (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH),[1] commonly known as at-Tabarani (Arabic: ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the extensive volumes of narrations he published.

Biography

At-Tabarani was born in 260 AH in Tiberias, a city in Sham. He travelled extensively to numerous regions to quench his thirst of knowledge, including Syria, Hejaz, Yemen, Egypt, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, and Isfahan.[2] He narrated from more than one thousand scholars,[citation needed] and authored a multitude of books on the subject. Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mansur stated, "I have narrated 300,000 narrations from at-Tabarani."[3] For most of the final years of his life, he lived in Isfahan, Iran, where he died on Dhu al-Qa'dah 27, 360 AH.[4][5]

Students

At-Tabarani, being a teacher of narrations, taught many students. Among them were Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Abd al-Khaliq al-Basri and Abu Bakr al-Bazzar.[citation needed]

Works

At-Tabarani is primarily known for three works on narrations:[1]

  • Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, which excludes Abu Hurayrah's narrations
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, which includes them
  • Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir, which provides a narration from each of his masters

See also

  • Tabari (name)
  • Majma al-Zawa'id

References

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