Al-Tabarani


Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī , commonly known as at-Tabarani, was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the extensive volumes of narrations he published.

Biography

At-Tabarani was born in 260 AH in Tiberias, a city in Sham. He travelled extensively to numerous regions to quench his thirst of knowledge, including Syria, Hejaz, Yemen, Egypt, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, and Isfahan. He narrated from more than one thousand scholars, and authored a multitude of books on the subject. Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mansur stated, "I have narrated 300,000 narrations from at-Tabarani." For most of the final years of his life, he lived in Isfahan, Iran, where he died on Dhu al-Qa'dah 27, 360 AH.

Students

At-Tabarani, being a teacher of narrations, taught many students. Among them were Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Abd al-Khaliq al-Basri and Abu Bakr al-Bazzar.

Works

At-Tabarani is primarily known for three works on narrations:
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir
  • Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat
  • Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir, which provides a narration from each of his masters
  • Mukarramu al-Akhlaaq- a collection of ahadith revolving around beautiful and chivalrous character