Abu Ishaq al-Tha'labi
Abu Ishaq al-Tha'labi | |
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أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الثَّعْلَبِيُّ | |
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| Born | 10th century Ash'ari |
| Main interest(s) | Tafsir, Hadith, Kalam, Tarikh |
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Al-Thaʿlabi (Abū Isḥāḳ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nīsābūrī al-Thaʿlabī أبو اسحاق أحمد بن محمد بن ابراهيم الثعلبي; died November 1035) was an eleventh-century
He was accorded a high rank by Sunni scholars. In Tabaqat al-Kubra of Volume 3 page 23 the appraisal of Thalabi is as follows:
Allamah Thalabi was the greatest scholar of his time with regard to knowledge of the Quran and Imam of Ahl'ul Sunnah, Abu Qasim al Qurshree commented " I saw Allah in a dream, I was conversing with Him and vice versa, during our conversation, Allah said ' a pious man is coming, I looked and Ahmad bin Thalabi was coming towards us."[This quote needs a citation]
Works
Al-Thaʿlabī is known for two works: the
Editions and translations
- al-Thaʻlabī, Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā’ (Cairo, 1954)
- Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaʻlabī, Lives of the Prophets, trans. by W. M. Brinner, Studies in Arabic Literature, 23 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), ISBN 9789004125896
See also
- List of Islamic scholars
References
- ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.
- ^ ISBN 9789004161214.
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