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Kufa
What they did here
Al-Sha'bi was born, raised, educated, served as a judge (qadi), and died in Kufa, the Iraqi garrison city to which his Hamdani clan had migrated. Classical biography places nearly his whole life here. Both ends of his life are traditional estimates: his birth is variously placed c. 16-21 AH (c. 637-642 CE) and his death year is variously reported as 103-110 AH (c. 721-729 CE).
About Kufa
Kufa, on the Euphrates in central Iraq near Najaf, was a garrison-town (misr) founded by the Muslims around 638 during the conquest of Iraq. It became a major centre of early Arabic grammar, jurisprudence, and Shi'i scholarship, and for a time the capital of the caliph Ali; the traditionist Ibn Abi Shayba (d. 849) and the Twelver scholar Ibn Babawayh al-Saduq (d. 991) are among those connected to it.
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The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with al-Sha'bi’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Islamic world
- Jabir ibn Abdullah· 607 CE–697 CE
- Anas ibn Malik· 612 CE–712 CE
- Abu Sa'id al-Khudri· 612 CE–693 CE
- Abdullah ibn Umar· 614 CE–692 CE
- Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As· 616 CE–684 CE
- Abdullah ibn Abbas· 619 CE–687 CE
- Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr· 624 CE–692 CE
- Hasan ibn Ali· 625 CE–670 CE
- Husayn ibn Ali· 626 CE–680 CE
- Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib· 637 CE–712 CE
- Jabir ibn Zayd· 639 CE–711 CE
- Mujahid ibn Jabr· 642 CE–722 CE
- al-Hasan al-Basri· 642 CE–728 CE
- Ikrima al-Barbari· 645 CE–723 CE
- Ata ibn Abi Rabah· 646 CE–732 CE
- Muhammad ibn Sirin· 654 CE–728 CE
- Ali Zayn al-Abidin· 659 CE–713 CE
- Sa'id ibn Jubayr· 665 CE–714 CE
- Ibrahim al-Nakha'i· 667 CE–714 CE
- Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri· 671 CE–742 CE
- Muhammad al-Baqir· 677 CE–733 CE
- Qatada ibn Di'ama· 680 CE–735 CE
- Tawus ibn Kaysan· –725 CE
- Nafi' mawla Ibn Umar· –735 CE
Christian world
Buddhist world
Jewish world
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Graeco-Roman world
Rulers world
- K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II· 644 CE–
- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan· 644 CE–705 CE
- Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ak' (Fiery Claw)· 649 CE–697 CE
- K'inich Kan Bahlam II· 635 CE–702 CE
- Constantine IV· 652 CE–685 CE
- al-Walid I· 674 CE–715 CE
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik· 675 CE–717 CE
- Wu Zetian· 624 CE–705 CE
- Yazid I· 646 CE–683 CE
- Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Ruler A)· –734 CE
- Emperor Tenmu· 631 CE–686 CE
- Emperor Gaozong of Tang· 628 CE–683 CE
- Munmu of Silla· 626 CE–681 CE
- Constans II· 630 CE–668 CE
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