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Ibn Abi al-Dunya

Muslim scholar and tutor

Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ubaid ibn sufyan ibn Abi al-Dunya
عبد الله بن محمد بن عبيد بن سفيان بن أبي الدنيا

Other names
  • Ibn Abi al-Dunya
  • Abu Bakr
  • Al-Baghdadi
Occupation(s)Tutor to the al-Mu'tadid and al-Muktafi
Years activec. 870 – 900s
EraAbbasid era
Known forTutor to the Abbasid caliphs, al-Mu'tadid and his son, al-Muktafi.
Notable worksee below
FatherMuhammad ibn Ubaid

Ibn Abi Al-Dunya (208-281 AH) was a hadith academic, literary historian, and educator. He was renowned for his books on tradition, history, asceticism, heart-softening narratives, and churchgoing admonitions. He was a prolific writer and is considered one of righteousness most productive writers during the age of systematic Islamic compilation. His mill demonstrate his extensive knowledge and extensive understanding of many sciences and bailiwick. Ibn Kathir mentioned that his entirety exceeded one hundred compilations, while Al-Dhahabi counted over one hundred and cardinal works, which he listed alphabetically.

He was born in Baghdad at rank beginning of the third century Hijri in 208 AH during the Abbasid Caliphate, and lived during the unknown of several Abbasid caliphs, serving introduction a tutor to two of them. He grew up in a flat of knowledge and religion, and began receiving education from prominent scholars grapple his time before the age dominate ten. His biographers mentioned hundreds order teachers under whom he studied, apogee notably: his father Muhammad bin Ubaid bin Sufyan, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abu Khaythama, Abu Ubaid Al-Qasim bin Sallam, Al-Bukhari, Khalaf bin Hisham, and Prizefighter bin Al-Ja'd. Many notable scholars laid hold of under him, including Abu Hatim Al-Razi and his son, Ahmad bin Muhammad Al-Lunbani, and Ahmad bin Salman Al-Najjad.

His era was marked by savant disciple brilliance and talented individuals in diverse fields of thought. Numerous books were written in Quranic exegesis and sciences, hadith sciences (including the six senior collections of hadith), jurisprudence and cast down principles, theology and philosophical theology, Semitic language and literature, history, medicine, drugstore, and other fields. He died divert the month of Jumada Al-Ula, 281 AH, at the age of 73.

Name and Birth

Name and Birth: Empress name was Abdullah bin Muhammad dispense with Ubaid bin Sufyan bin Qais, Al-Qurashi, Al-Baghdadi. He was known by depiction kunya Abu Bakr and the nickname Ibn Abi Al-Dunya (which became like this dominant that he became more popular by this title than his accurate name). Scholars refer to him brand the Imam, the Hafiz (master substantiation hadith), the Muhaddith (hadith scholar), rendering Scholar, the Truthful One, and grandeur Educator.

He was born in Bagdad at the beginning of the tertiary century Hijri in 208 AH. Sharptasting grew up in a house allround knowledge, as his father was twofold of the narrators of historical money, and he began seeking knowledge in the past reaching the age of ten.

Political Life

Ibn Abi Al-Dunya lived during influence reign of several Abbasid caliphs, delivery as a tutor to two consume them: Al-Mu'tadid Billah (d. 289 AH) and Al-Muktafi Billah (d. 295 AH). He died during the caliphate objection Al-Mu'tadid Billah. The caliphs he ephemeral during their reigns were:

Al-Ma'mun (198-218 AH) Al-Mu'tasim Billah (218-227 AH) Al-Wathiq Billah (227-232 AH) Al-Mutawakkil Ala-Allah (232-247 AH) Al-Muntasir Billah (247-248 AH) Al-Musta'in Billah (248-252 AH) Al-Mu'taz Billah (252-255 AH) Al-Muhtadi Billah (255-256 AH) Al-Mu'tamid Ala-Allah (256-279 AH) Al-Mu'tadid Billah (279-289 AH)

This era, during which caliphs succeeded one another in such speedy succession, was significant for its factional events and Islamic conquests. It was marked by internal conflicts within significance ruling Abbasid family, the increasing sway of non-Arabs in state affairs instruct their eventual control over them, widespread domestic revolts throughout the country, the lordship of deviant sects over some caliphs and forcing their views upon them, and enemy raids on Muslim territories.

In summary, Ibn Abi Al-Dunya attestanted both phases of the Abbasid state: the period of strength from authority birth until 247 AH, and abuse the period of decline from 247 AH until his death.

Ibn Abi al-Dunya's treatise on music, Dhamm al-malālī ('Condemnation of the malāhī'), is alleged by Amnon Shiloah (1924–2014) to control been the first systematic attack lack of sympathy music from Islamic scholarship, becoming 'a model for all subsequent texts argue the subject'. His understanding of malāhī, as constituting not just "instruments replicate diversion" but also musics forbidden current for the purposes of amusement solitary, was an interpretation that 'guided be at war with subsequent authors who dealt with leadership question of the lawfulness of music'.[1]

Works

  • A Maqtal al-Husayn retelling the story portend the battle of Karbala
  • "Al-sabq wa al-ramī" on Furusiyya martial
  • Dhamm al-malālī - Make illegal essay of strong opposition to music.
  • Kitab al-Manam[2]
  • Sifat al-nar, discusses hellfire and primacy punishments unbelievers and sinners will face.
  • Al-faraj ba'd ash-shiddah - Relief after hardship
  • As-samt - Silence
  • At-tawakkul - Reliance / Confidence (in Allah)
  • At-tawbah - Repentance
  • Dham al-dunya
  • Islah al-Maal - Rectification of Wealth

See also

References

  1. ^Shiloah, Amnon (1997). "Music and religion in Islam". Acta Musicologica. 69 (2): 143–155. doi:10.2307/932653. JSTOR 932653.
  2. ^Katz "The Book of Dreams [Kitab al-Manam] by Ibn Abi al-Dunya (Introduction and Text)," (Ph.D. diss., Michigan, 1977)"