Ahmad ibn Bajir
- Died
- 322 AH
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Ahmad ibn Bajir (d. 322 AH / 934 CE) was an Iraqi judge and hadith scholar who served as the judge of Basra and Wasit.
Background and Career
His full lineage was Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Nasr ibn Bujayr ibn Abd Allah ibn Salih ibn Usama, and he bore the kunya Abu al-Abbas and the nisba al-Dhuhli. He belonged to a family prominent in jurisprudence and the judiciary; his grandfather, Nasr ibn Bujayr, had studied under Abu Yusuf and held judicial office in Rayy. Ahmad was regarded among the senior and foremost judges of his era, presiding over the judiciaries of Basra, Wasit, and other regions, and he delegated judicial duties to his son, Abu al-Tahir Muhammad.
Hadith Scholarship
He heard and collected hadith in Damascus and other localities. His teachers included Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi, Mahmud ibn Khidash, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Mukharrami, Muhammad ibn Hammad al-Tahrani, 'Imran ibn Bakkar, and Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Khali. He also recorded dictation sessions (amali) from Muhammad ibn Salih ibn al-Nattah.
Ahmad was evaluated as trustworthy (thiqah) by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Among those who narrated from him were al-Daraqutni, al-Mu'afa ibn Zakariyya al-Jariri, Abu Bakr ibn al-Muqri', and Abu Tahir al-Mukhallis. His surviving hadith compilation, known as Fawa'id Ibn Bujayr, was transmitted through the narration of his student Abu Tahir al-Mukhallis.
Death
According to al-Qawwas and Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Shahin, Ahmad ibn Bajir died in 322 AH (934 CE); Ibn Shahin specified the date as Tuesday at the close of Rabi' al-Akhar.
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List of Works
Fawaid Ibn Bujayr is a short hadith treatise compiling thirty brief narrations. The collection brings together Prophetic traditions, statements of early jurists (athar), literary anecdotes, verses of poetry, and Quranic exegesis.