Ibn Sirin

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Sirin
TitleIbn Sirin
Personal
Born654 AD Basra, Rashidun Caliphate (present-day Iraq)
Died12 January 728[1]
ReligionIslam
Parents
  • Sirin al-Basri (father)
  • Safiyya (mother)
EraIslamic golden age
JurisprudenceSunni
Notable work(s)Great Book of Interpretation of Dreams
Relations

Muhammad Ibn Sirin (Arabic: محمد بن سيرين) (born in Basra) was a Muslim tabi' as he was a contemporary of Anas ibn Malik. He is claimed by some to have been an interpreter of dreams, though others regard the books to have been falsely attributed to him. Once regarded as the same person as Achmet son of Seirim, this is no longer believed to be true, as shown by Maria Mavroudi.[2]

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 1, p.546, Edition. I, 1964
  2. ^ Maria Mavroudi, A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: the Oneirocriticon of Achmet and its Arabic Sources, (Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 2002).