Ibn Tahir

Ibn Tahir
ابن طاهر
TitleHafiz
Personal
Born
Jerusalem, Fatimid Caliphate
DiedSeptember 1113
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting placeThe Old Cemetery, west bank of the Tigris
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
(Later Abbasid era)
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceZahiri
CreedAthari
MovementSufism
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Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Tahir ibn Ali al-Qaysarani (Arabic: أبو الفضل محمد ابن طاهر ابن علي القيساراني, romanized: Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ʿAlī al-Qaysarānī; 1057–September 1113), known simply as Ibn Tahir, was an Islamic scholar, historian and traditionist.[1] He is largely credited with being the first to delineate and define the Six Books of Sunni Islam after the Qur'an,[2][3][4] and the first person to include Sunan Ibn Maja as a canonical work.[5]

  1. ^ "Names of Zahiri Scholars". Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  2. ^ Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated by William McGuckin de Slane. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by Institut de France and Royal Library of Belgium. Vol. 3, pg. 5.
  3. ^ Scott C. Lucas, Constructive Critics, Ḥadīth Literature, and the Articulation of Sunnī Islam, pg. 106. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2004.
  4. ^ Muhammad 'Abd al-Ra'uf, Hadith Literature - 1. Taken from The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, vol. 1, pg. 287. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  5. ^ Ignác Goldziher, Muslim Studies, vol. 2, pg. 240. Halle, 1889-1890. ISBN 0-202-30778-6