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Sufyan al-Thawri, the Glossary

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza al-Thawrī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْرَة ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ; 716–778 CE / 97–161 AH), commonly known as Sufyān al-Thawrī (سُفْيَان ٱلثَّوْرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, ascetic, traditionist, and eponymous founder of the Thawri school of Islamic jurisprudence, considered one of the Eight Ascetics.^[1]

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i

Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī (أَبُو عَمْرو عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمَٰن بْن عَمْرو ٱلْأَوْزَاعِيّ; 707–774) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and the chief representative and eponym of the Awza'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. Sufyan al-Thawri and Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i are 8th-century Arab people, 8th-century jurists, scholars from the Umayyad Caliphate and Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in hadith narrators.

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Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani

Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam ibn Nafi' al-San'ani (744 – January 827 CE, 126–211 AH), a Yemeni hadith scholar who compiled a hadith collection known as the ''Musannaf'' of Abd al-Razzaq. Sufyan al-Thawri and Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani are Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in hadith narrators.

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Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak

Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (translit; –797) was an 8th-century traditionalist Sunni Muslim scholar and Hanafi jurist. Sufyan al-Thawri and Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak are 8th-century jurists, hadith scholars, Muslim ascetics, Sunni Sufis and Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in hadith narrators.

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Abu Muslim al-Khawlani

Abu Muslim Al-Khawlani (died 684) was a well-known tabi'i (plural: taba'een) and a prominent religious figure in Damascus, Syria.

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Al-Aswad ibn Yazid

Al-Aswad ibn Yazid (الأسود بن يزيد) (d. 74 AH or 75 AH) was a well-known scholar from among the taba'een and pupil of Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud He was one of the narrators of hadith.

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Al-Darani

Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī (أبو سليمان الداراني) was an ascetic sage of the 2nd–3rd/8th–9th century and one of the earliest theoreticians of formal mysticism in Islam. Sufyan al-Thawri and al-Darani are Muslim ascetics and Sunni Sufis.

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Al-Mahdi

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Manṣūr (أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله المنصور; 744 or 745 – 785), better known by his regnal name al-Mahdī (المهدي, "He who is guided by God"), was the third Abbasid Caliph who reigned from 775 to his death in 785.

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Al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym

Al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym al-Thawri (d.ca 682) was a pupil of Abdullah ibn Masud and a famous tabi'i ascetic of Kufa.

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Al-Tabari

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.

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Amir ibn Abd al-Qays

Amir ibn Abd al-Qays (died c. 661–680) was a tabi`i of Basra who died at Damascus, where he had become famous within the Muslim community for his austere and eloquent speeches.

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Angeliki Laiou

Angeliki E. Laiou (Αγγελική Λαΐου; Athens, 6 April 1941 – Boston, 11 December 2008) was a Greek-American byzantinist and politician.

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Aqidah

Aqidah (pl.) is an Islamic term of Arabic origin that literally means "creed".

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Attar of Nishapur

Abū Ḥāmid bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (– c. 1221; ابوحمید بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فریدالدین) and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary), was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.

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Basra

Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq.

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Faqīh

A faqīh (fuqahā, فقيه;: &rlm;فقهاء&lrm) is an Islamic jurist, an expert in fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic Law.

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Fiqh

Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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Hasan al-Basri

Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra (Arabic: الحسن البصري, romanized: Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or as Hasan al-Basri, was an ancient Muslim preacher, ascetic, theologian, exegete, scholar, and judge. Sufyan al-Thawri and Hasan al-Basri are scholars from the Umayyad Caliphate and Sunni Sufis.

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Iblis

Iblis (translit), alternatively known as Eblīs, is the leader of the devils in Islam.

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Ijtihad

Ijtihad (اجتهاد) is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question.

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Imam

Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.

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Ja'far al-Sadiq

Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (translit; –765 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam. Sufyan al-Thawri and Ja'far al-Sadiq are 8th-century Arab people.

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Kufa

Kufa (الْكُوفَة), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf.

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List of Sufis

This list article contains names of notable people commonly considered as Sufis or otherwise associated with Sufism.

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Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas (translit; –795) was an Islamic scholar and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Maliki school, one of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence in Sunni Islam. Sufyan al-Thawri and Malik ibn Anas are 8th-century Arab people, hadith compilers, scholars from the Umayyad Caliphate and Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in.

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Masruq ibn al-Ajda'

Masruq ibn al-Ajda' (Arabic مَسْرُوقْ بِنْ اَلْأَجْدَع, died 682) was a well-known and respected tabi'i (from taba'een), jurist and muĥaddith (transmitter of Prophetic traditions or hadith).

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Muhaddith

A Muhaddith (محدث) is a scholar specialized in the study, collection, and interpretation of hadiths, which are the recorded sayings, actions, and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad. Sufyan al-Thawri and Muhaddith are hadith scholars.

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Nisba (onomastics)

In Arabic names, a nisba (نسبة, "attribution"), also rendered as or, is an adjective surname indicating the person's place of origin, ancestral tribe, or ancestry, used at the end of the name and occasionally ending in the suffix -iyy for males and -iyyah for females.

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Owais al-Qarani

Owais al-Qarani (أُوَيْس ٱبْن عَامِر ٱبْن جَزْء ٱبْن مَالِك ٱلْقَرَنِيّ), also spelled Uways or Owais, was a Muslim from South Arabia who lived during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Qāriʾ

A qāriʾ (lit, plural قُرَّاء qurrāʾ or قَرَأَة qaraʾa) is a person who recites the Quran with the proper rules of recitation (tajwid).

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Shaykh al-Islām

Shaykh al-Islām (Šayḫ al-Islām; شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; شیخ‌ الاسلام, Şeyhülislam) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj

Shuʿba bin al-Ḥajjāj bin al-Ward, Abū Busṭām al-ʿAtakī (شُعْبَة بِن الحَجَّاْج بِن الْوَرْد أَبُو بُسطامالْعَتَكِي) (c. 85–160/704–776 AH/CE) was an early, devout Muslim, who was known for both his knowledge of poetry and of ḥadīth. Sufyan al-Thawri and Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj are hadith compilers, hadith scholars and Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in hadith narrators.

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Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah

Abū Muḥammad Sufyān ibn ʽUyaynah ibn Maymūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (أبو محمد سفيان بن عيينة بن ميمون الهلالي الكوفي) (725 –) was a prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca. Sufyan al-Thawri and Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah are 8th-century Arab people, hadith scholars and Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in hadith narrators.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tazkirat al-Awliya

Tazkirat al-Awliyā (تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit. "Biographies of the Saints")variant transliterations: Tazkirat al-Awliyā`, Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc., is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints and their miracles (Karamat) by the twelfth–thirteenth-century Persian poet and mystic, Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufyan_al-Thawri

Also known as Al-Thawri, Sufyan al-Thawri ibn Said, Sufyan al-Thawrt ibn Said, Sufyan ath-Thawri.

Sufyan al-Thawri, the Glossary

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716 births

778 deaths

8th-century jurists

Arab writers

Hadith compilers

Muslim ascetics

People from Kufa

Scholars from the Umayyad Caliphate

Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in

Taba‘ at-Tabi‘in hadith narrators

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