Ibn Abi Asim

Abu Bakr Ahmad bin `Amr ad-Dahhak bin Makhlad ash-Shaibani , widely known as Ibn Abi Asim , was an Iraqi Sunni scholar of the 9th century. He is most famous for his work in the field of hadith science.

Biography

Family and early life Ibn Abi Asim was born in Basra, Iraq in 822. He grew up in an academic household, as both his father and his grandfather were scholars of Prophetic traditions in their own right.

Death Ibn Abi Asim died in Isfahan in the year 900.

Legacy

Works Ibn Abi Asim compiled numerous Prophetic traditions into two volumes, organized into chapters based on different theological and creed-related topics. He had also written about the first-generation Muslim and Umayyad caliph, Mu'awiya, while Ibn Hajar referred to it as a book on Mu'awiya's virtues. It is not known whether the topic Ibn Abi Asim's essay was actually disputed, or if he had simply written about both topics.

Sunni Muslim evaluation Historians Abu al-Abbas al-Niswi and Abu Nu`aym both reported Ibn Abi Asim as having been a Zahiri. Although he has become an important figure for the Zahiri school in the modern day, few of his works in jurisprudence have survived to the modern era.