Urwah ibn Zubayr

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Name:	Urwah ibn Zubayr
Title:
Birth:
Death:	94 AH (713)[1]
Main interests:	History, Fiqh and Hadith
Influences:	A'isha[2]
Influenced:	Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri

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1st millennium AH

1st century AH: (622 – 719 CE) Ubay ibn Ka'b (d. 22) Umar (-40 – 23) Ibn Mas'ud (d. 32) Ka'ab al-Ahbar (d. 32) Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. 34) Ali (-23 – 40) Abdullah ibn Salam (d. 43) Ahmad ibn Tawoos (d. 53?) Abu Hurairah (d. 57) Masruq ibn al-Ajda' (d. 62?) Alqama ibn Qays (d. 62?) Ibn Abbas (-3 – 68) Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali (-16 – 69) Sulaym ibn Qays (d. 70) Ibn Umar (-8? – 74) Aswad ibn Yazid (d. 75) Ma'bad al-Juhani (d. 80) Sahl ibn Sa'd (d. 91) Urwah ibn Zubayr (d. 94) Said ibn Al-Musayyib (d. 94) Raja ibn Haywah Ali ibn Abi Talha Uqbah ibn Amir 2nd century AH: (719 – 816 CE) 3rd century AH: (816 – 913 CE) 4th century AH: (913 – 1010 CE) 5th century AH: (1010 – 1107 CE) 6th century AH: (1107 – 1204 CE) 7th century AH: (1204 – 1301 CE) 8th century AH: (1301 – 1398 CE) 9th century AH: (1398 – 1495 CE) 10th century AH: (1495 – 1592 CE)

2nd millennium AH

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The Seven Fuqaha of Medina

Said ibn Al-Musayyib Urwah ibn Zubayr Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman Qasim ibn Muhammad Ubaydullah ibn 'Abdullah ibn 'Utba ibn Mas'ud Sulayman ibn Yasar Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit This box: view • talk • edit

Urwah Ibn Al-Zubayr (d. 713) was among the seven fuqahaa (jurists) who formulated the fiqh of Medina in the time of the Tabi‘in and one of Muslim historian.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Family 1.2 Uthman's era 2 Legacy 2.1 Works 2.2 Hadith 2.3 Non-Muslim view 3 References

[edit] Biography

[edit] Family

He was the son of Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and Asma bint Abi Bakr, the brother of Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and the nephew of Aisha bint Abi Bakr.

His son was Hisham ibn Urwa.

[edit] Uthman's era

He was born in the early years of the caliphate of Uthman ^[3], and lived through the civil war which occurred after Uthman's murder. Although his brother Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr wrested the rule from Abd al-Malik, it is unknown if he assisted him. He devoted himself to the study of fiqh and hadith and had the greatest knowledge of hadiths narrated from Aishah. He said, "Before Aishah died, I saw that I had become one of four authorities. I said, 'If she dies, there will be no hadith which will be lost from those she knows. I have memorized all of them."

[edit] Legacy

[edit] Works

Urwah wrote many books but, fearing they might become sources of authority alongside the Qur'an, destroyed them the day of the Battle of Harra. He later he regretted that, saying "I would rather have them in my possession than my family and property twice over."

He is also known to have written one of the first writings in the area of the biography of the Prophet Muhammad, known as the Tract of Seerah by Urwa Ibn Az Zubayr.

[edit] Hadith

Among his narrations are:

• Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah

His transmitted narrations from:

• Aisha ^[2]

His narrations are transmitted by:

• Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri ^[4]

[edit] Non-Muslim view

Gregor Schoeler calls him as the first head of what he calls a "Madinese historical school," who began the systematic organization of material into books (tasnīf) ^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Taqrib al-Tahdhib
2. ^ ^{a b} Sahih Muslim 19:4354
3. ^ Ibn Hajar, Taqrib al-Tahdhib
4. ^ Al-Muwatta 28 18.42
5. ^ Mit-Ejmes

also:

• The Four Imams, Muhammad Abu Zahrah, Dar al-Taqwa Publications