Khalifa ibn Khayyat
Khalifa ibn Khayyat | |
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خليفة ابن خياط | |
| Title | Al-ʿallāmah ('The erudite scholar') - Al-Ḥāfiẓ |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 160 AH / 776–7 CE Basra, Iraq, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | 240 AH / 854–5 CE Basra, Iraq, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Region | Mesopotamia |
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| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Teachers | Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Al-Mada'ini, Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah |
| Profession | Safflower trader |
| Muslim leader | |
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| Personal (Ism) | Khalīfa خَلِيفَة |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn Khayyāṭ ibn Khalīfa ibn Khayyāṭ بن خَيَّاط بن خَلِيفَة بن خَيَّاط |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū ʿAmr أبو عَمْر |
| Epithet (Laqab) | Shabāb شَبَاب |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-ʿUṣfūrī al-Shaybānī al-Dhuhlī al-Tamīmī al-Laythī العُصْفُرِيّ الشَّيْبَانِيّ الذُّهْلِيّ التَّمِيمِيّ اللَّيْثِيّ |
Khalīfa bin Khayyāṭ bin Khalifa bin Khayyāṭ al-ʿUṣfūrī al-Shaybānī al-Dhuhlī al-Tamīmī al-Laythī Abū ʿAmr Shabāb (Arabic: خليفة بن خياط بن خليفة بن خياط العصفوري الشيباني الذهلي التميمي الليثي أبو عمرو شباب; 777–855) commonly known by his nickname Shabab or simply Khalifa Ibn Khayyat was a Basran Arab Islamic scholar, traditionist, historian, chronicler and genealogist.
A member of a scholarly Basran family of hadith transmitters, he became known primarily for his contributions to history and biographical literature. His Taʾrīkh is the earliest extant Islamic chronicle, covering events from the Prophet’s life to 232/847, while his Ṭabaqāt is one of the earliest surviving Islamic biographical dictionaries, cataloguing more than three thousand transmitters of hadith.