Urwah ibn Zubayr

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Name:	Urwah ibn Zubayr
Birth:	94 AH (712–713 CE) ^[1]
School/tradition:	<tr><th style="text-align: right;">Influences:</th><td>A'isha^[2]<small/></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: right;">Influenced:</th><td> <small/></td></tr>

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The Seven Fuqaha of Medina
Said ibn Al-Musayyib Urwah ibn Zubayr Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman Qasim ibn Muhammad Ubaydullah ibn 'Abdullah ibn 'Utba ibn Mas'ud Sulayman ibn Yasar Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit This box: view • • edit</div>

Urwah Ibn Al-Zubayr (d. 712) was among the seven fuqahaa (jurists) who formulated the fiqh of Medina in the time of the Tabi‘in.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Family
- 1.2 Utman's era
2 Legacy
3 References
4 Categories

Biography

Family

He was the son of Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and Asma bint Abu Bakr, the brother of Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and the nephew of Aisha bint Abi Bakr.

His son was Hisham ibn Urwa.

Utman's era

He was born in the caliphate of Uthman and lived through the civil war which occurred after Uthman's murder. Although his brother Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr wrested the rule from Abd al-Malik, it is unknown if he assisted his brother. He devoted himself to the study of fiqh and hadith and had the greatest knowledge of hadiths narrated from Aishah. He said, "Before Aishah died, I saw that I had become one of four authorities. I said, 'If she dies, there will be no hadith which will be lost from those she knows. I have memorised all of them."

Legacy

Works

Urwah wrote many books but, fearing they might become sources of authority alongside the Qur'an, destroyed them the day of the Battle of Harra. He later he regretted that, saying "I would rather have them in my possession than my family and property twice over."

He is also known to have written one of the first writings in the area of the biography of the Prophet Muhammad, known as the Tract of Seerah by Urwa Ibn Az Zubayr.

Hadith

Among his narrations are:

Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah

His transmitted narrations from:

Aisha ^[2]

His narrations are transmitted by:

Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri ^[3]

Non-Muslim view

Gregor Schoeler calls him as the first head of what he calls a “Madinese historical school,” who began the systematic organization of material into books (taṣnīf) ^[1]

References

also:

The Four Imams, Muhammad Abu Zahrah, Dar al-Taqwa Publications

Urwah ibn Zubayr

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Biography

Family

Utman's era

Legacy

Works

Hadith

Non-Muslim view

References

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