Al-Tabarani#Works

{{Short description|Muslim scholar and traditionist (c. 873–970)}}

{{infobox religious biography

| name = Aṭ-Ṭabarānī
{{lang|ar|ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ}}

| birth_date = 873/874 CE / 260 AH

| death_date = 970/971 CE / 360 AH

| religion = Islam

| era = Islamic Golden Age

| creed =

| denomination = Sunni

| jurisprudence =

| main_interests = Narrations

| works = {{ubl| Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir | Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat | Al-Mu'jam as-Saghir }}

| occupation = {{ubl| Scholar | traditionist }}

| influenced = Abu Nu'aym al-Bazzar{{EI2|title=Al-Ṭabarānī|last=Fierro|first=Maribel|volume=10|page=10}}

}}

Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī ({{langx|ar|أَبُو ٱلقَاسِم سُلَيْمَان بْن أَحْمَد بْن أَيُّوب بْن مُطَيِّر ٱللَّخْمِيّ ٱلشَّامِيّ ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ}}) (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH), commonly known as at-Tabarani ({{langx|ar|ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ|aṭ-Ṭabarānī}}), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the extensive volumes of narrations he published.

Biography

At-Tabarani was born in 260 AH in Tiberias, a city in Sham. He travelled extensively to numerous regions to quench his thirst of knowledge, including Syria, Hejaz, Yemen, Egypt, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, and Isfahan.Tazkirah al-Huffaz, v. 3, p. 85 He narrated from more than one thousand scholars,{{citationneeded|date=January 2024}} and authored a multitude of books on the subject. Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mansur stated, "I have narrated 300,000 narrations from at-Tabarani."Siyar A'lam an-Nubala', v. 12, p. 268 For most of the final years of his life, he lived in Isfahan, Iran, where he died on Dhu al-Qa'dah 27, 360 AH.{{citeweb|url=https://www.darulfatwa.org.au/en/brief-biographies-of-the-eminent-scholars-of-hadith|title=AT-TABARANI, Sulaimman bin Ahmad|website=www.darulfatwa.org.au|access-date=Jun 10, 2019}}{{citeweb|url=https://www.dawateislami.net/magazine/en/achievements-of-revolutionary/religious-services-of-imam-tabarani|title=Religious Services Of Imam Tabarani|website=www.dawateislami.net|access-date=Jun 10, 2019}}

Students

At-Tabarani, being a teacher of narrations, taught many students. Among them were Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Abd al-Khaliq al-Basri and Abu Bakr al-Bazzar.{{citationneeded|date=January 2024}}