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Abū Yaʻqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mukhallad al-Ḥanzalī ( ), commonly known as Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh ( ; 161 AH – 238 AH ), was the muhaddith , faqih and the imam of Khurasan of his time. He was given the title of "the leader of the believers in the field of hadith" (amir al-muʼminīn fī al-ḥadīth) for his major contributions to the science of hadith . It is said that Ibn Rahwayh memorized more than one hundred thousand hadiths.1He along with Al-Thawri are cited in Lisanu-l-Arab (also spelled Lisan Al-Arab) for taking the stance that once a man marries a slave and has children with her both she and the child are free, and the child cannot be enslaved. He was also a fellow student and a friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal who accompanied him on his travels to seek knowledge. أمير المؤمنين في الحديث Al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥajar .2
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9th-century Islamic scholar Abū Yaʻqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mukhallad al-Ḥanẓalī ( ), commonly known as Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh ( ; 161 AH – 238 AH ), was a jurist and imam of Khorasan . Along with Sufyan al-Thawri and Dawud al-Zahiri , he is cited in Lisanu-l-Arab (also spelled Lisan al-Arab) for taking the stance that once a man marries a slave and has children with her both she and the child are free, and the child cannot be enslaved. This was against the opinion of most Islamic scholars of jurisprudence of the time. He was also a fellow student and a friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal who accompanied him on his travels to seek knowledge. أمير المؤمنين في الحديث Al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥajar .
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9th-century Islamic scholar and Jurist Abū Yaʻqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mukhallad al-Ḥanẓalī ( ), commonly known as Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh ( ; 161 AH – 238 AH ), was a jurist and imam of Khorasan . Along with Sufyan al-Thawri and Dawud al-Zahiri , he is cited in Lisanu-l-Arab (also spelled Lisan al-Arab) for taking the stance that once a man marries a slave and has children with her both she and the child are free, and the child cannot be enslaved. This was against the opinion of most Islamic scholars of jurisprudence of the time. He was also a fellow student and a friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal who accompanied him on his travels to seek knowledge. أمير المؤمنين في الحديث Al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ḥajar .
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Muslim jurist and theologian (c. 777–852) Ishaq bin Ibrahim bin Makhlad bin Rahwayh Abu Ya'qub al-Hanzali al-Marwazi ( Arabic : إسحاق بن إبراهيم بن مخلد بن راهويه أبو يعقوب الهَنْظَليّ المَرْوَزِيّ , 777-778 - 855 CE) commonly known as Ishaq ibn Rahwayh ( romanizated: Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh) was a Sunni Muslim scholar , jurist , muhaddith , exegete , and theologian .A close friend of Ahmad ibn Hanbal , he accompanied him on his travels to seek knowledge, and he was also a teacher of Bukhari and inspired him to compile the Sahih al-Bukhari .There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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