• Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith
Abd Allah Ibn al-Mubarak
عَبْد اللَّه ٱبْن الْمُبَارَك
Personal
Bornc. 726
Merv Umayyad Caliphate
Died797 (aged 70–71)
Hit, Abbasid Caliphate
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionCaliphate
JurisprudenceHanafi
Teachers

Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (Arabic: عَبْد اللَّه ٱبْن الْمُبَارَك, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak; c. 726–797) was an 8th-century Sunni Muslim scholar and Athari theologian.[1] Known by the title Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith, he is considered a pious Muslim known for his memory and zeal for knowledge who was a muhaddith and was remembered for his asceticism.[2][3]

Biography

His father, named Mubarak, was of Indian[4] or Turkic descent from Khurasan and became a mawla or "client" of an Arab trader from the tribe of Banī Hanẓala in the city of Hamadhān. His mother was said to have been from Khwārizm.[5] Mubarak later married Hind, a trader's daughter.[5] Ibn al-Mubarak was born during the reign of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.

It is said that ʿAbdullāh left his hometown of Merv, and while living in Hamadhān, went on to visit and speak often in Baghdad.[2] Ahmad ibn Hanbal commented that there was no one more eager to travel to seek knowledge than Abdullah ibn Mubarak. His teachers included Sufyān al-Thawrī and Abū Hanīfa.[6] He wrote Kitāb al-Jihād, a collection of hadīth and sayings of the early Muslims on war, and Kitāb al-Zuhd wa al-Rāqa’iq, a book on asceticism. He was also known for defending Islamic borders (see ribat) on the frontiers of Tarsus and al-Massisah. He died in 797 at Hīt, near the Euphrates, during the reign of Harun al-Rashid.[6][7]

Works

Described as a prolific writer,[8] his works, most are now lost, include:

References

  1. ^ Melchert, Christopher (1997). "Chapter 1: The Traditionalists of Iraq". The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. pp. 5–6. ISBN 90-04-10952-8.
  2. ^ a b Abu Nu'aym. Ḥilyat al-Awliyā’. p. v. 11 p. 389.
  3. ^ Ibn Hajr, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (5/386).
  4. ^ Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri (1958). Rijäl al-Sind wa-al-Hind (in Arabic). search.worldcat.org. p. 290.
  5. ^ a b Abu Nu'aym. Ḥilyat al-Awliyā’. p. v. 11 p. 390.
  6. ^ a b Robson, J. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill. p. Ibn al- Mubārak.
  7. ^ SALEM, FERYAL E. (2013). ‘ABD ALLĀH B. AL-MUBĀRAK BETWEEN ḤADĪTH, JIHĀD, AND ZUHD: AN EXPRESSION OF EARLY SUNNI IDENTITY IN THE FORMATIVE PERIOD. University of Chicago: Dissertation.
  8. ^ Alexander Knysh, Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, BRILL (2015), p. 21


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