Al-Tabarani

Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلقَاسِم سُلَيْمَان بْن أَحْمَد بْن أَيُّوب بْن مُطَيِّر ٱللَّخْمِيّ ٱلشَّامِيّ ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ) (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH),[1] commonly known as at-Tabarani (Arabic: ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭabarānī), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the extensive volumes of narrations he published.

Not to be confused with at-Tabari.
Aṭ-Ṭabarānī
ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ
Personal
Born873/874 CE / 260 AH
Died970/971 CE / 360 AH
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
DenominationSunni
Main interest(s)Narrations
Notable work(s)
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat
  • Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir
Occupation
Muslim leader
Influenced
  • Abu Nu'aym al-Bazzar[1]

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, 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.

Works

At-Tabarani is primarily known for three works on narrations:[1]

  • Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, which excludes 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
  • Tabari (name)
  • Majma al-Zawa'id

References
  1. Fierro, Maribel (2000). "Al-Ṭabarānī". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume X: T–U. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 10. ISBN 978-90-04-11211-7.
  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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