Abu Zur'a Ubaydullah ibn Abdul-Karim ibn Yazid ibn Faruh (أبو زرعة الرازي, 815/816 or 809/810, in
Rey, Iran
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– 878, in Rey) was a Muslim scholar,
Muhaddith
Hadith studies ( ar, علم الحديث ''ʻilm al-ḥadīth'' "science of hadith", also science of hadith, or science of hadith criticism or hadith criticism)
consists of several religious scholarly disciplines used by Muslim scholars in th ...
from Rey (northern
Iran
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). Abu Zur'a was a relative of another famous Muhaddith
Abu Hatim al-Razi Abu Hatim al-Razi may refer to:
* Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Idris al-Razi (811–890), hadith scholar
* Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi
Abū Ḥātim Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān al-Rāzī ( fa, ابو حاتم احمد بن حمدان الرازی) w ...
(Muhammad ibn Idris).
Not to be confused with Abu Zur'a Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Razi (al-Razi al-Mutawassit or al-Saghir).
[Gilliot, Claude]
"Abū Zurʿa al-Rāzī"
Encyclopaedia of Islam
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, THREE. Edited by: Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. Omar Sangani Ina Narile 7 April 2013
References
Hadith compilers
Year of birth uncertain
878 deaths
Biographical evaluation scholars
Hadith scholars
Atharis
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