Al-Daraqutni


Abū ‘l-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar ibn Aḥmad ibn Mahdī ibn Mas’ūd ibn al-Nu‘mān ibn Dīnār ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Baghdādi ad-Dāraquṭnī was an eminent Muslim scholar and muhaddith.

Biography

Al-Daraqutni was born in the year 918 in the Dar al-Qutn quarter of Baghdad, whence he got his nisba. Since childhood, he studied with Abu'l-Qasim al-Baghawi, Abu Bakr ibn Abu Dawud, Abu Bakr ibn Ziyad al-Naysaburi, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim and many other scholars.
His learning was so wide that many scholars felt there was no one like him. Khatib al-Baghdadi referred to him as "the imam of his time" and Abu'l-Tayyib al-Tabari called him the "Commander of the Faithful of the Hadith", for which he was specially famous. He taught Hadith to Hakim al-Nishaburi and Abu'l-Hasan Isfaraini.
He died in 385/995 and was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Dayr in Baghdad, Iraq, near the grave of Maruf Karkhi.

His works

Among other works, Al-Daraqutni has written the following: