Ibn Abi al-Saqr
- Died
- 476 AH
- Born in
- Anbar
Abu Tahir Ibn Abi al-Saqr (c. 396–476 AH / 1005–1083 CE) was a hadith scholar, preacher, and poet from al-Anbar, known for his transmitted teacher-catalog Mashyakhat Ibn Abi al-Saqr .
Lineage and Education
His full name is recorded as Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Abi al-Saqr al-Lakhmi al-Anbari , and alternatively as Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hamd ibn Isma'il ibn Abd al-Jabbar ibn Muflih al-Anbari .
In pursuit of hadith, he traveled widely to the Hijaz, Syria, and Egypt, acquiring extensive collections of books and transmissions before returning to settle in al-Anbar . In Damascus, he studied under scholars including Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Nasr al-Tamimi, Abu Nasr ibn al-Habban, and Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd Allah al-Murri . In Egypt, his teachers included Abu Abd Allah ibn Nazif, Isma'il ibn Amr al-Haddad, and Silah ibn al-Mu'ammal . He also heard narrations from the poet and scholar Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri in Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-San'ani, and Abu Muhammad al-Jawhari in Baghdad .
After his return, he taught hadith extensively in al-Anbar . His prominent students included al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ibn al-Samarqandi, the philologist Mawhub ibn al-Jawaliqi, Abd al-Wahhab al-Anmati, Abu Bakr ibn al-Zaghuni, and Ibn Nasir .
Scholarly Standing
Ibn Abi al-Saqr was characterized by biographical sources as a trustworthy, virtuous, and deeply religious scholar . The contemporary narrator Khalifa ibn Mahfuz described him as devoted to fasting and nightly vigils, noting that the volume of his heard transmissions was reputed to equal a camel-load . In addition to his hadith work, he composed poetry . His hadith transmissions were documented in a two-part compilation titled Mashyakhat Ibn Abi al-Saqr .
Death
He died in al-Anbar in 476 AH (1083 CE) in his eighties . Abu al-Fath Ibn al-Hallal, the imam of the central mosque in al-Anbar, placed his death on the tenth of Jumada al-Akhira 476 AH and confirmed his burial in al-Anbar, while a variant report from his student Ibn Nasir placed his death in Sha'ban of the same year .
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List of Works
Mashyakhat Abi Tahir Ibn Abi al-Saqr (The Teacher-Catalog of Abu Tahir Ibn Abi al-Saqr) is a hadith compilation structured in two parts. It preserves narrations received from various teachers across travels, recording prophetical hadiths and narrated reports directly from these shaykhs along with their locations and transmission circumstances.