Ma'bad ibn Kalid al-Juhanī ( ar, معبد الجهني; died 80 AH/ 699CE), was from the tribe of
Juhaynah
The Juhaynah ( ar, جهينة, also transliterated as ''Djuhaynah'' and ''Johaynah'') are a nomad tribe of the Arabian Peninsula and the largest clan of Banu Quda'a. They are one of the most powerful Arabian tribes that rule important parts ...
which lived and still live in around the city of
Medina
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h in Saudi Arabia. He was
Qadari, an idea he got from
Sinbuya, and was declared as misguided by some of the
companions of the
Islamic prophet Muhammad
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, such as
Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عبد الله بن عمر ابن الخطاب; 610693) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of the second Caliph Umar. He was a prominent authority in ''hadith'' and law. ...
He was
crucified
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by the orders of the Caliph
Abd al-Malik in
Damascus. According to a couple of
sahih
Hadith terminology ( ar, مصطلح الحديث, muṣṭalaḥu l-ḥadīth) is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings (''hadith'') attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic f ...
hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...
, "The first person to speak about
Al-Qadar" (the doctrine of predestination) or at least the first person in
Basra
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to speak about it, was "Ma'bad Al-Juhani."
His ideas were later followed by Abū Marwān Gaylān ibn Mūslīm ad-
Dimashqī an-
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al-Qībtī.
See also
*
Qadariyyah
*
Sinbuya Asvari
References
Notes
Citations
699 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People executed by crucifixion
7th-century Arabs
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