Al-Marzubānī
Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Imrān ibn Mūsā ibn Sa'īd ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī al-Khurāsānī (c. 909 – 10 November 994), was a prolific author of adab, akhbar (news), history and ḥadīth (traditions). He lived all his life in his native city, Baghdad, although his family came originally from Khurāsān.
Also recorded as Muḥammad Ibn-ʿImrān al- Marzubānī
Al-Marzubānī
- Name
- Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Imrān al-Marzubānī
- Born
- February-March 909 (Jumāda 296/7 AH)
- Birthplace
- Baghdād, al-Irāq
- Died
- 994 11 10 [2 Shawwāl 384 A.H.]
- Occupation
- historian · writer · philologist · theologian · literary scholar
- Movements
- Mu'tazilism
- Teachers
- Ibn Duraid · Ibn-al-Anbārī
- Known for
- Muʻjam al-shuʻarāʼ
- Languages
- Arabic
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• Name — Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Imrān al-Marzubānī • Native Name — أبو عبد الله محمد عمران المرزباني الخراساني • Other Names — Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad 'Imrān ibn Mūsā ibn Sa'īd ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī (أبو عبد الله محمد عمران بن موسى بن سعيد بن عبد الله) • Born — February-March 909 (Jumāda 296/7 AH) • Birthplace — Baghdād, al-Irāq • Died — 994 11 10 [2 Shawwāl 384 A.H.] • Place of death — Baghdād, al-Irāq • Era — Islamic Golden Age (Middle and Later Abbasid era) • Influences — Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī, Abū Dā'ūd al-Sijistānī • Influenced — Ibn al-Murtaḍā
Life
Life
Al-Marzubānī came from a wealthy Arab family connected to the royal court of the Abbāsid caliph. Ibn al-Jawālīqī in his Kitāb al-Mu'arrab, explains that al-Marzubānī inherited a Persian epithet "Marzban", which means 'Guardian of the frontier'. The Buyid amir ‘Aḍūd al-Dawla was known to visit his residence on the east bank of the Tigris, where he would also entertain members of a literary circle dedicated to the conservation and transmission of Arabic philological literature. Fellow authors in his circle were Abū Ya'qūb al-Najīramī (d.1031), Abū Sa'īd al-Sīrāfī (d. 979) and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik al-Tārīkhī. He edited the first dīwān (collected poems) by the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I (r. 661–680), which he produced in a small volume of about three kurrāsa, – ca., 60 ff.
Al-Marzubānī's principal teachers
Al-Marzubānī's principal teachers
• 'Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī (829 – 929), jurist. • Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dā'ūd al-Sijistānī (ca. 844—928/929), ḥāfiẓ, scholar of Ḥadīth and Qur'an, and author of Kitāb al-Masābīh. • al-Ṣūlī held al-Marzubānī in high esteem and much of al-Marzubānī's material in his Kitāb al-Muwashshaḥ and his compilation technique was apparently borrowed from him.
Al-Marzubānī's principal authorities
Works
Works
Among his books were:
Books about the Sawād
• An'ān al-Shi'rEssences of Poetry'; about praise and satire, glory and generosity • Akhbār al-AjwādTraditions about the Generous' • Al-AwṣāfQualities' • Al-TashbihātAllegories' Isḥāq al-Nadīm records that 20,000 ff from sources written in al-Marzubānī's handwriting had survived to his day.
Legacy
He was the last of the authorities of literary and oral tradition Isḥāq al-Nadīm met. He was cited by the Mu'tazilite theologian Abū 'Abd Allāh al-Ṣaymarī (d. 927/8), Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhi (940 – 994), Abū Muḥammad al-Jauhari, et al. Some sectarian-based criticismattributed to al-Marzubānī's religious leanings and madhhab, despite his publication of Ḥanafī, Shī'i and Mu'tazila riwāya and akhbar (biographies).seems to have led to the relative neglect of his writings by Sunni scholars in later centuries.
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- 1.Iṣbahānī, 1888, Aghānī, XVI, 96.
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