Ishaq ibn Rahwayh

Ishaq ibn Rahuyah
إِسْحَاق بْن رَاهُوْيَه
TitleAmir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith ('Leader of the Believers in Hadith')[1]
Personal
Bornc. 777 CE (161 AH)[2]
Died{2 February 853} (15 Sha'ban 238 AH)[4]
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age (early Abbasid era)
RegionKhorasan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceIndependent
CreedAthari[3]
Main interest(s)
Notable work(s)Al-Musnad
Arabic name
Personal
(Ism)
Isḥāq
إِسْحَاق
Patronymic
(Nasab)
Ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mukhallad
ٱبْن إِبْرَاهِيم بْن مُخَلَّد
Teknonymic
(Kunya)
Abū Yaʿqūb
أَبُو يَعْقُوب
Toponymic
(Nisba)
Al-Ḥanẓalī
ٱلْحَنْظَلِيّ
Muslim leader

Ishaq ibn Rahuyah (Arabic: إسحاق بن رَاهَوَيْه/رَاهُوْيَه, romanized: Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Makhlad ibn Rāhūyah/Rāhawayh; b. 161 AH? - d. 238 AH / b. 777-8 CE - d. 853 CE)[2][4] was a classical Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, exegete, and theologian. A close friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, he accompanied him on his travels to seek knowledge[10] and he was also a teacher of Imam Bukhari and inspired him to compile the Sahih al-Bukhari.

  1. ^ Al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥajar. Fath al-Bari sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. p. 6.
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  3. ^ Melchert, Christopher (1997). "Chapter 1: The Traditionalists of Iraq". The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. p. 6. ISBN 90-04-10952-8.
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