Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar al-Nuʿmānī ( ar, محمد بن إبراهيم بن جعفر النعماني), also known as Ibn Abī Zaynab (), was a 10th-century Shi'a scholar. His last name suggest that his family came from al-Numaniyya, near
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
. He was reportedly a disciple of
al-Kulayni
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Iṣḥāq al Kulaynī ar Rāzī ( Persian: ar, أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن يَعْقُوب إِسْحَاق ٱلْكُلَيْنِيّ ٱلرَّازِيّ; c. 250 AH/864 CE ...
(–941).
According to
al-Najashi (–1058), he wrote several books such as the ('Book of Occultation'), the ('Book of Commandments'), and the ('Book of Refutation of
Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sa ...
'). A
Quran commentary is attributed to him titled . The commentary is incorporated into the by the 17th-century author
al-Majlisi.
[Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imāmī-Shiism, By Meʼir Mikhaʼel Bar-Ashe, pp]
64-66
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Quranic exegesis scholars
10th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Shia hadith scholars