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Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Hadith compiler of the Umayyad age

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Ibn Shihab al-Zuhriابن شهاب الزهري

Approximate dateMadinah

He led the first official effort to write down the hadith, at a caliph's request.

A Qurashi of Madinah, he sought hadith from house to house and later served the Umayyad court. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, fearing knowledge would die with its carriers, asked scholars to record the Sunnah, and al-Zuhri led this work. Malik, Ibn Ishaq and many others learned from him.

What grew out of it?

The written hadith collections of the next century grew from his notebooks.

Where do they appear in the story?

Who else is linked?

MadinahUrwah ibn al-ZubayrMalik ibn AnasIbn IshaqUmar ibn Abd al-AzizUmayyad CaliphateAmrah bint Abd al-Rahman

Who lived at the same time?

Al-Walid ibn Abd al-MalikSulayman ibn Abd al-MalikAbd al-Malik ibn MarwanUmar ibn Abd al-AzizYazid ibn Abd al-MalikMaslamah ibn Abd al-MalikPelayoMarwan ibn al-Hakam

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