Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār
Title	Al-Nassābah (lit. 'The Genealogist')
Personal life
Born	788 CE/172 AH ; Medina, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	870 CE/256 AH ; Mecca, Abbasid Caliphate
Era	Islamic Golden Age ; (Abbasid era)
Region	Abbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)	History, Genealogy, Poetry
Occupation	Arab historian
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Creed	Sunni

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār (Arabic: أبو عبدالله الزبير بن بكار بن عبد الله بن مصعب بن ثابت بن عبد الله بن الزبير بن العوام, (788-870 CE / 172–256 AH), a descendant of al-Zubayr ibn al-ʻAwwām, was a leading Arab Muslim historian and genealogist^[2] of the Arabs, particularly the Hijaz region. He composed a number of works on genealogy that made him a standing authority on the subject of the genealogies of the Quraysh tribe. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani regarded him as the most reliable authority on Qurayshite genealogy.^[3]

Biography

He was born and raised in Medina and served as the qadi of Mecca in 242 AH (c. 864 CE).^[4] In one of his visits to Baghdad, Ibn Bakkar was invited by the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil to become the tutor to his son.^[1]

He died in Mecca after he fell from a roof.^[1]

Works

Works attributed to Ibn Bakkar:^[5]

Published works

Jamharat nasab Quraysh wa-akhbāruhā (جمهرة نسب قريش وأخبارها)
Al-Akhbār al-muwaffaqīyāt (الأخبار الموفقيات)
Ah̲bār Abī Abī Dahbal al-Jumaḥī (أخبار أبي دهبل الجمحي)
Azwāj al-Nabī (أزواج النبي). The edited version is named: Al-Muntakhab min Kitāb azwāj al-Nabī (المنتخب من كتاب أزواج النبي)
Commentary on "Kitāb al-Amthāl" of Abū ʻUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām
Commentary on "Kitāb al-Nasab" of Abū ʻUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām

Lost works

Akhbār al-ʻArab wa-ayyāmuhā (أخبار العرب وأيامها)- translit., "Arabs & Their Times"
Nawādir akhbār al-nasab (نوادر أخبار النسب)
Al-ikhtilāf (الاختلاف) or Al-aḥlāf (الأحلاف)- translit., "Alliances"
Nawādir al-madanīyīn (نوادر المدنيين)
Al-nakhīl (النخيل)- translit., "Palm Trees"
Al-ʻaqīq wa-akhbāruhu (العقيق وأخباره)
Al-Aws wa-al-Khazraj (الأوس والخزرج) - translit., "The Aws & The Khazraj (Tribes)"

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ibn Bakkār, Al-Zubayr (1996), al-ʻĀnī, Sāmī Makkī (ed.), Al-Akhbār al-muwaffaqīyāt (2nd ed.), Dār ʻĀlam al-Kutub, pp. 14–18
^ Khalidi, T. (2001). The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 188. ISBN 0-674-00477-9.
^ Crow, Karim Douglas (2005). Facing one Qiblah: legal and doctrinal aspects of Sunni and Shi'ah Muslims. Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd. p. 194. ISBN 9789971775520.
^ Sezgin, GAS, I, p.317
^ Majallat al-ʻArab, 2006 CE/1427 AH

[Sami-1] Ibn Bakkār, Al-Zubayr (1996), al-ʻĀnī, Sāmī Makkī (ed.), Al-Akhbār al-muwaffaqīyāt (2nd ed.), Dār ʻĀlam al-Kutub, pp. 14–18

[2] Khalidi, T. (2001). The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 188. ISBN 0-674-00477-9.

[3] Crow, Karim Douglas (2005). Facing one Qiblah: legal and doctrinal aspects of Sunni and Shi'ah Muslims. Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd. p. 194. ISBN 9789971775520.

[4] Sezgin, GAS, I, p.317

[5] Majallat al-ʻArab, 2006 CE/1427 AH

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