Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar

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Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār
TitleAl-Nassābah ("The Genealogist")
Personal
Born788 CE/172 AH
Arab historian

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār (

Quraysh tribe. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani regarded him as the most reliable authority on Qurayshite genealogy.[3]

Biography

He was born and raised in

Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil to become the tutor to his son.[1]

He died in Mecca after he fell from a roof.[1]

Works

Works attributed to Ibn Bakkar:[5]

Published works

  • Jamharat nasab Quraysh wa-akhbāruhā (جمهرة نسب قريش وأخبارها)
  • Al-Akhbār al-muwaffaqīyāt (الأخبار الموفقيات)
  • Ah̲bār Abī Abī Dahbal al-Jumaḥī (أخبار أبي دهبل الجمحي)
  • Azwāj al-Nabī (أزواج النبي). The edited version is named: Al-Muntakhab min Kitāb azwāj al-Nabī (المنتخب من كتاب أزواج النبي)
  • Commentary on "Kitāb al-Amthāl" of Abū ʻUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām
  • Commentary on "Kitāb al-Nasab" of Abū ʻUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām

Lost works

  • Akhbār al-ʻArab wa-ayyāmuhā (أخبار العرب وأيامها)- translit., "Arabs & Their Times"
  • Nawādir akhbār al-nasab (نوادر أخبار النسب)
  • Al-ikhtilāf (الاختلاف) or Al-aḥlāf (الأحلاف)- translit., "Alliances"
  • Nawādir al-madanīyīn (نوادر المدنيين)
  • Al-nakhīl (النخيل)- translit., "Palm Trees"
  • Al-ʻaqīq wa-akhbāruhu (العقيق وأخباره)
  • Al-Aws wa-al-Khazraj (الأوس والخزرج) - translit., "The Aws & The Khazraj (Tribes)"

References

  1. ^ a b c Ibn Bakkār, Al-Zubayr (1996), al-ʻĀnī, Sāmī Makkī (ed.), Al-Akhbār al-muwaffaqīyāt (2nd ed.), Dār ʻĀlam al-Kutub, pp. 14–18
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  4. ^ Sezgin, GAS, I, p.317
  5. ^ Majallat al-ʻArab, 2006 CE/1427 AH