Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Sa'di al-Juzajani ( ar , أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن يعقوب بن إسحاق السعدي الجوزجاني , born around 180 AH – died 872 CE/259 AH) was a

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

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 approval ...

scholar, one of the

imams Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, serve ...

of al-jarh wa al-ta'deel and a student of

Ahmad ibn Hanbal Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...

. Some of the

scholars that transmitted his narrations include

Abu Dawood Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī ( ar, أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني), commonly known simply as Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī, was a scholar o ...

al-Tirmidhi Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā as-Sulamī aḍ-Ḍarīr al-Būghī at-Tirmidhī ( ar, أبو عيسى محمد بن عيسى السلمي الضرير البوغي الترمذي; fa, , ''Termezī''; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209 - 2 ...

and

al-Nasa'i Al-Nasāʾī (214 – 303 AH; 829 – 915 CE), full name Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnān al-Nasāʾī, (variant: Abu Abdel-rahman Ahmed ibn Shua'ib ibn Ali ibn Sinan ibn Bahr ibn Dinar Al-Khurasani ...

Biography

He was born and raised in

Jowzjan Jowzjan, sometimes spelled Jawzjan or Jozjan (Dari: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. The province is divided into 11 Districts of Afghanistan, districts ...

but moved to

Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

where he lived until his death.

Teachers

Some of his notable teachers were:

Ibn Ma'in Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn ( ar, يحيى بن معين) (774-847), was a great classical Islamic scholar in the field of hadith of Persian people, Persian origin. He was a close friend of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Ibn Ma'in is known to have spent all of ...

Ali ibn al-Madini Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbdillāh ibn Jaʻfar al-Madīnī (778 CE/161 AH – 849/234) ( ar, أبو الحسن علي بن عبد الله بن جعفر المديني) was a ninth-century Sunni Islamic scholar who was influential in the sci ...

, Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh, Abu Thawr al-Kalbi, Hafs ibn ‘Umar al-Hawdi, Husayn ibn ‘Ali al-Ju'fi, Sa'id ibn Abi Maryam, Sa'id ibn Mansoor, Musadad ibn Masrahad and Yazid ibn Haroon.

Students

The well-known students who took knowledge from him were:

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 ...

, Abu Zur'ah al-Razi, Abu Zur'ah al-Dimashqi and al-Dulabi.

Works

The following is a list of works by al-Juzajani: * ''Aḥwāl al-rijāl (أحوال الرجال)'' also known as ''Al-Shajarah fī Aḥwāl al-rijāl (الشجرة في أحوال الرجال)'': Modern editors of Al-Juzajani's works believe that this book was also called ''Al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl (الجرح والتعديل)'', ''Al-ḍuʻafāʼ (الضعفاء)'', ''Maʻrifat al-rijāl (معرفة الرجال )'' or ''Al-mutarjam (المترجم)'' by early Islamic scholars. * ''Imārāt al-Nubūwah (أمارت النبوة)'' * ''Masāʼil al-Imām Aḥmad (مسائل الإمام أحمد)'' * ''Al-Tārīkh (التاريخ)''

References

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