Ibn Jurayj

Ibn Jurayj
ابن جريج
Mufti of Mecca
Preceded byAta ibn Abi Rabah
Succeeded bySufyan ibn ʽUyaynah
Titleal-Imām al-Jalīl ('The Eminent Imām') - al-Ḥāfiẓ - al-ʿĀlim al-Faqīh ('The Erudite Scholar and Jurist') - Shaykh al-Ḥaram ('The Shaykh of Haram') - Mudawwin al-ʿIlm bi-Makkah ('The compiler of knowledge in Mecca')
Personal life
Born80 AH / 699 CE
Died11 Dhu al-Hijjah 150 AH / 7 January 768 CE (aged 67 - 68)
Home townMecca
ChildrenMuhammad bin 'Abdul Malik bin Jurauj, 'Abdul 'Aziz
ParentAbd al-Aziz ibn Jurayj (father)
EraUmayyad Caliphate
RegionHejaz
Main interest(s)Islamic jurisprudence, hadith, Quranic exegesis
Notable work(s)Tafsir Ibn Jurayj
Religious life
ReligionIslam
TeachersAmr ibn Dinar, Ata ibn Abi Rabah, Hisham ibn Urwah, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Ma'mar ibn Rashid, Musa ibn ʿUqba, Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar, Tawus ibn Kaysan
Muslim leader
Arabic name
Personal
(Ism)
ʿAbd al-Malik
عبد الملك
Patronymic
(Nasab)
ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jurayj
بن عبد العزيز بن جريج
Teknonymic
(Kunya)
Abū Khālid / Abū al-Walīd
أَبُو خَالِد / أَبُو الْوَلِيد
Toponymic
(Nisba)
al-Rūmī al-Umawī al-Qurashī al-Makkī
الرومي الأموي القرشي المكي

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jurayj al-Rūmī al-Umawī al-Qurashī al-Makkī (Arabic: عبد الملك بن عبد العزيز بن جريج الرومي الأموي القرشي المكي, 80 AH/699 CE - 150 AH/767 CE) commonly known as Ibn Jurayj ([/ʔibn ʒuˈrajʒ/]) was an eighth-century tabi'i faqīh, exegete and transmitter of hadith.

A student of early Meccan jurist Ata ibn Abi Rabah, Ibn Jurayj became a scholar in his own right and served as the mufti of Mecca under the Umayyads. He composed works on Quranic exegesis and the rites of pilgrimage, and his compilation of hadith, Kitab al-Sunan, was a founding work of the musannaf genre. Though lost, much of the latter was preserved in the musannaf of his student Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani, who cites Ibn Jurayj as an informant in approximately one-third of the traditions transmitted.