Ibn Abi al-Dunya

Hafiz Abu Bakr, 'Abdullah bin Muhammad bin 'Ubaid bin Sufyan bin Abu Ad-Dunya Al-Qurashi Al-Baghdadi, the freed slave of Banu Umaiya...

Hafiz Abu Bakr, 'Abdullah bin Muhammad bin 'Ubaid bin Sufyan bin Abu Ad-Dunya Al-Qurashi Al-Baghdadi, the freed slave of Banu Umaiya, was born in 208 H. He was a Muhaddith and truthful 'Aalim. He wrote some books and educated more than one of the caliphs' sons like Al-Mu'tadid. Ibn Abu Ad-Dunya died in Jumada Al-Ula, 281 H. Ibn Abi Dunya, like his contemporaries, Bukhari and Muslim and others narrates every hadith with a continuous chain of narrators, usually containing five or six narrators. Some of the ahadith he narrates are also found in the six famous hadith books. Ibn Abi Dunya was a deeply spiritual man and someone who was deeply concerned about the growing worldliness of Muslims of his time. If Ibn Abi Dunya lamented about the people in his day and age, the ninth century.

الحافظ أبو بكر بن عبد الله بن محمد بن عبيد بن سفيان بن قيس البغدادي الأموي القرشي جن کا لقب ابن ابی دنیا تھابنو امیہ کےایک آزاد کردئے گئے غلام تھے۔ وہ سنہ 208 ہجری میں پیدا ہوئے وہ ایک محدث اور بہترین عالم تھے، انہوں نے چند کتب بھی تحریر کیں اور خلیفہ وقت کے ایک بیٹے کے بھی استاد تھے، وہ جمادی الاول 281 ہجری میں فوت ہوئے۔ احادیث کی 6 کتابوں میں انکی بیان کردہ احادیث بھی ملتی ہیں۔