Wahb ibn Jarīr ibn Ḥazīm (Arabic: وهب بن جرير بن حازم) (died 822) was a Muslim traditionist from Basra and a source frequently cited in the histories of al-Tabari and Khalifa ibn Khayyat.
Biography
Wahb was the son of Jarir ibn Hazim ibn Zayd (d. 786), who authored a work about the Azariqa, a 7th-century Kharijite movement active in Iraq and Persia. Wahb's family resided in Basra, and hailed from the Atik clan of the Azd, a large Arab tribe.
Through his transmission of earlier authors, Wahb was an important historical source for the Battle of the Camel, Kharijite revolts and the conflict between the Umayyad Caliphate and the inhabitants of the Hejaz (western Arabia). Wahb was regarded as a sahib Sunna by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, implying that he sympathized with Sunni Muslim doctrine. He was viewed as a reliable authority by his contemporaries Ibn Sa'd (d. 784), Yahya ibn Ma'in (d. 847) and al-Ijli. A major source for his information was his father and Juwayria ibn al-Asma'i. He also was a major transmitter of the biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq. Wahb is frequently cited in the historical work of Khalifa ibn Khayyat.
References
- ^ Hawting 1989, p. 17, note 76.
- Ulrich 2008, pp. 124, 153.
- Andersson 2019, pp. 111–112, 260.
- ^ Andersson 2019, p. 111.
Works cited
- Andersson, Tobias (2019). Early Sunnī Historiography: A Study of the Tārīkh of Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 9789004383173.
- Hawting, G. R., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XX: The Collapse of Sufyānid Authority and the Coming of the Marwānids: The Caliphates of Muʿāwiyah II and Marwān I and the Beginning of the Caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik, A.D. 683–685/A.H. 64–66. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-855-3.
- Ulrich, Brian John (2008). Constructing Al-Azd: Tribal Identity and Society in the Early Islamic Centuries. Madison: University of Wisconsin.
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