Imam al-Ajurri was an Islamic scholar from 10th century (4th century AH). He came from Darb al-Ajurr in western

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, after studying with many scholar in

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he moved to

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and start teaching there. He lived in Mecca for 30 years until he died there in 970 / 320 AH. Al-Ajurri commonly known as Shafi'is scholar, while Ibn Abi Ya'la stated he is a Hanbali. Among his teacher is Al-Hafiz Abul Muslim Ibrahim bin Abdillah bin Muslim Al-Bashri Al-Kajji (d.292 H) and also Abu Bakr Abd-allah bin Sulayman bin Al-Ash’ath As-Sijistani (d.316 H) one of sheikh in Baghdad, the son of Imam Abu Dawud of Sunan Abu Dawud.Suʼālāt Abī ʻUbayd al-Ājurrī Abā Daʼūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʻath al-Sijistānī (202-275 H) fī maʻrifat al-rijāl wa-jarḥihim wa-taʻdīlihim While one of his famous student is Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani who transmitted hadith from him.

His Writings

Al-Ajurri wrote many books, even many of them were lost, some surviving work still published today. Some of his writing are: * Kitāb al-Sharīʻah. One of his important book. * Akhlāq al-ʻulamāʼ * Kitāb al-arbaʻīn ḥadīthan * Akhlāq ḥamalat al-Qurʼān * Akhlāq ahl al-Qurʼān * Kitāb al-taṣdīq bi-al-naẓar ilá Allāh taʻālá fī al-ākhirah * Taḥrīm al-nard wa-al-shiṭranj wa-al-malāhī * Akhbār Abī Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz wa-sīratuh * Dhamm al-liwāṭ , * Kitāb al-ghurabāʼ, etc.

Acknowledgment

Ibn Khallikan Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān) ( ar, أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 1211 – 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a 13th century Shafi'i Islamic scholar w ...

says:"He was Shafi'i jurist and a muhaddith, he is the author of famous book Al-Arba'in. He was a righteous and pious man."

Al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Islamic historia ...

says:" The Imam, the Muhaddith, he was the Imam of the grand Mosque in Makkah (Imam al-Haram); a truthful, charitable and a pious man, a man of exemplary character."

References

;Bibliography * Al-Ajurri, Abu Bakr
Kitab Ash-Shariah
pg.5 Shafi'is Hanbalis Hadith scholars People from Baghdad 10th-century jurists {{islam-scholar-stub