Al-Tabarani

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Aṭ-Ṭabarānī
ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ
Personal
Born873/874
Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir
Occupation
  • traditionist
  • Muslim leader

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

    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]

    • 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

    References

    1. ^ .
    2. ^ Tazkirah al-Huffaz, v. 3, p. 85
    3. ^ Siyar A'lam an-Nubala', v. 12, p. 268
    4. ^ "AT-TABARANI, Sulaimman bin Ahmad". www.darulfatwa.org.au. Retrieved Jun 10, 2019.
    5. ^ "Religious Services Of Imam Tabarani". www.dawateislami.net. Retrieved Jun 10, 2019.

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