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 "id": "person/al-tahawi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-tahawi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبو جعفر الطحاوي",
  "en": "Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "إمام محدث فقيه حنفي مصري من الأزد، قيل إنه أخذ العلم عن نحو ثلاثمئة شيخ؛ له «مشكل الآثار» و«معاني الآثار» و«العقيدة الطحاوية».",
  "en": "A Hanafi hadith scholar and jurist of Egypt from the tribe of Azd, said to have taken knowledge from about three hundred teachers; author of Mushkil al-Athar, Ma'ani al-Athar and the Tahawi creed."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "creed"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أحمد بن محمد بن سلامة أبو جعفر الطحاوي الأزدي الحنفي المصري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "hijri": "0239",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date from the short biography in the Dar Ibn Hazm edition; one source, a second is needed before promotion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "hijri": "0321",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died in Egypt in 321 AH according to the same biography; one source, a second is needed.",
   "sources": [
    "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "jurist",
   "theologian"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni-hanafi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "He names himself as following the creed of the jurists of the community Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan in the preamble of his creed.",
    "sources": [
     "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "العقيدة الطحاوية، طبعة دار ابن حزم 1995، ص 5 و7",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "tahawiyya-1"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q293771"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; from the biographical note and preamble of the Dar Ibn Hazm edition, no prose yet"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد بن سلامة الطحاوي الأزدي الحنفي المصري، إمام محدث فقيه، له «مشكل الآثار» و«معاني الآثار» و«العقيدة الطحاوية» {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "العلم",
     "markdown": "قيل إنه أخذ العلم عن نحو ثلاثمئة شيخ {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقيدته",
     "markdown": "صرّح في مقدمة عقيدته بأنه على اعتقاد فقهاء الملة أبي حنيفة وأبي يوسف ومحمد بن الحسن {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "تاريخاه",
     "markdown": "وُلد سنة 239هـ وتوفي بمصر سنة 321هـ بحسب التعريف الموجز في طبعة دار ابن حزم. هذا مصدر واحد، فالتاريخان يحتاجان إلى مصدر ثان {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-tahawi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Salama al-Tahawi al-Azdi al-Hanafi al-Misri, a leading hadith scholar and jurist, author of \"Mushkil al-Athar\", \"Ma'ani al-Athar\" and \"al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya\". {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His learning",
     "markdown": "It is said he took knowledge from about three hundred shaykhs. {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His creed",
     "markdown": "In the introduction to his creed he declares that he is upon the belief of the jurists of the community, Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan. {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His dates",
     "markdown": "He was born in 239 AH and died in Egypt in 321 AH, according to the concise biography in the Dar Ibn Hazm edition. This is one source, so the two dates need a second source. {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-tahawi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ابو جعفر احمد بن محمد بن سلامہ الطحاوی الازدی الحنفی المصری، محدث اور فقیہ امام، جن کی تصانیف میں «مشکل الآثار»، «معانی الآثار» اور «العقیدۃ الطحاویۃ» شامل ہیں۔ {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "علم",
     "markdown": "کہا گیا ہے کہ انھوں نے تقریباً تین سو شیوخ سے علم حاصل کیا۔ {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقیدہ",
     "markdown": "اپنے عقیدے کے مقدمے میں انھوں نے صراحت کی کہ وہ امت کے فقہا ابو حنیفہ، ابو یوسف اور محمد بن الحسن کے عقیدے پر ہیں۔ {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سنین",
     "markdown": "دار ابن حزم کے چھپے ہوئے مختصر تعارف کے مطابق وہ سنہ 239ھ میں پیدا ہوئے اور سنہ 321ھ میں مصر میں وفات پائی۔ یہ ایک ہی ماخذ ہے، اس لیے دونوں تاریخوں کو دوسرے ماخذ کی ضرورت ہے۔ {cite:aqida-tahawiyya}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-tahawi",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
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   "to": "work/ahkam-al-quran-tahawi",
   "type": "authored",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
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  {
   "to": "passage/muwatta-2-627",
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  "passage/muwatta-2-627",
  "work/ahkam-al-quran-tahawi"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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