Al-Tabarani should not be confused with at-Tabari.
| Aṭ-Ṭabarānī Arabic: ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ | |
| Birth Date: | 873/874 CE / 260 AH |
| Death Date: | 970/971 CE / 360 AH |
| Religion: | Islam |
| Era: | Islamic Golden Age |
| Denomination: | Sunni |
| Main Interests: | Narrations |
| Influenced: | Abu Nu'aym al-Bazzar |
Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī (ar|أَبُو ٱلقَاسِم سُلَيْمَان بْن أَحْمَد بْن أَيُّوب بْن مُطَيِّر ٱللَّخْمِيّ ٱلشَّامِيّ ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ) (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH), commonly known as at-Tabarani (ar|ٱلطَّبَرَانِيّ|aṭ-Ṭabarānī), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the extensive volumes of narrations he published.
At-Tabarani was born in 260 AH in Tiberias, a city in Sham. He travelled extensively to numerous regions to quench his thirst of knowledge, including Syria, Hejaz, Yemen, Egypt, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, and Isfahan.[1] He narrated from more than one thousand scholars, and authored a multitude of books on the subject. Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mansur stated, "I have narrated 300,000 narrations from at-Tabarani."[2] For most of the final years of his life, he lived in Isfahan, Iran, where he died on Dhu al-Qa'dah 27, 360 AH.[3] [4]
At-Tabarani, being a teacher of narrations, taught many students. Among them were Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Abd al-Khaliq al-Basri and Abu Bakr al-Bazzar.
At-Tabarani is primarily known for three works on narrations: