Aṭ-Ṭabarānī ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ | |
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Born | 873/874 CE / 260 AH |
Died | 970/971 CE / 360 AH |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Islamic Golden Age |
Denomination | Sunni |
Main interest(s) | Narrations |
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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.
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,[ citation needed] 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]
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.[ citation needed]
At-Tabarani is primarily known for three works on narrations: [1]