Abd Allah Ibn al-Mubarak | |
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عَبْد اللَّه ٱبْن الْمُبَارَك | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 726 |
| Died | 797 (aged 70–71) |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Caliphate |
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| Religion | Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi[1][2] |
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Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (Arabic:عَبْد اللَّه ٱبْن الْمُبَارَك,romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak;c. 726–797) was an 8th-centurytraditionalist[3]Sunni Muslim scholar andHanafi jurist.[4] Known by the titleAmir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith, he is considered a pious Muslim known for his memory and zeal for knowledge who was amuhaddith and was remembered for hisasceticism.[5][6]
His father, named Mubarak, was of Indian[7] or Turkic descent fromKhurasan and became aMawla or "client" of an Arab trader from the tribe of Banī Hanẓala in the city ofHamadhān. His mother was said to have been fromKhwārizm.[8] Mubarak later married Hind, a trader's daughter.[8] Ibn al-Mubarak was born during the reign of Umayyad caliphHisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
It is said that ʿAbdullāh left his hometown ofMerv, and while living in Hamadhān, went on to visit and speak often inBaghdad.[5]Ahmad ibn Hanbal commented that there was no one more eager to travel to seek knowledge than Abdullah ibn Mubarak. His teachers includedSufyān al-Thawrī andAbū Hanīfa.[9] He wroteKitāb al-Jihād, a collection ofhadīth and sayings of the early Muslims on war, andKitāb al-Zuhd wa al-Rāqa’iq, a book on asceticism. He was also known for defending Islamic borders (seeribat) on the frontiers ofTarsus and al-Massisah. He died in 797 atHīt, near theEuphrates, during the reign ofHarun al-Rashid.[9][10]
Described as a prolific writer,[11] his works, most are now lost, include:
Hanafi literature, of course, celebrates Ibn al-Mubārak's admiration for, and dependence on, Abū Hanīfa – for example, our earliest extant biographical dictionary of Abū Hanīfa and the Hanafi school includes Ibn al-Mubārak among nine members of the generation of Abū Hanīfa's immediate disciples.
Ibn al-Mubarak may in fact have been a follower of Abū Hanifa's school of law; at the least, his legal reasoning was heavily influenced by Hanafi methodology.
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