Muḥammad b. Muslim Ibn Shihāb Abū Bakr al-Zuhrī

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major early hadith transmitter and scholar of sīra (prophetic biography)

Names

  • Arabic: محمد بن مسلم ابن شهاب أبو بكر الزهري = Muḥammad b. Muslim Ibn Shihāb Abū Bakr al-Zuhrī 1
  • Arabic: الزهري = al-Zuhrī 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 124 AH/741 CE

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 78، 125، 212، 502 (2) 172، 340، 377، 389، 415، 431 (3) 48، 106، 211، 351 (4) 224 (5) 81، 88، 226، 291، 305، 329، 352 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 14, 17, 38, 47, 60, 75, 76, 84, 91, 113, 115, 118, 125, 130, 132, 137, 154, 159, 160, 162, 165, 174, 176, 198, 204, 205, 209, 212, 213, 215, 217, 229, 231, 234, 283, 317, 333, 334, 335, 337, 340, 342, 344, 345, 350, 351, 352, 361, 365, 375, 377, 383, 387, 406, 408, 417, 427 [Arabic].
    • Al-Zuhrī: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 2, 36, 57, 59-60, 79, 97, 100, 101, 104, 112, 118, 119, 139, 143, 144, 147, 160, 161, 181, 183, 186, 188, 190, 192, 194, 195, 198, 201, 214, 215, 216, 229, 255, 383, 394 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Muḥammad b. Muslim Ibn Shihāb Abū Bakr al-Zuhrī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/10528.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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