Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri

Imam Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri
ابن شهاب الزهري
Personal
Born	AH 58 (677/678) Medina, Umayyad Caliphate
Died	AH 124 (741/742) Shaghb wa-Bada, Umayyad Caliphate
Religion	Islam
Region	Syria, Hejaz
Main interest(s)	Hadith, prophetic biography, fiqh
Relations	Abdullah ibn Muslim al-Zuhri (brother)
Muslim leader
Influenced by Urwah ibn Zubayr, Said ibn al-Musayyib, Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah, Abu Salamah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
Influenced Malik ibn Anas, Ibn Ishaq, Ma'mar ibn Rashid, Umar II, Ibn Jurayj, Sufyan ibn Uyaynah, Al-Waqidi
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muḥammad (محمد)
Patronymic (Nasab)	Ibn Muslim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn S̲h̲ihāb (بن مسلم بن عبيد الله بن عبد الله بن شهاب)
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abū Bakr (أبو بكر)
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Zuhrī (الزهري)

Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Shihab az-Zuhri (Arabic: محمد بن مسلم بن عبید الله بن عبد الله بن شهاب الزهري, romanized: Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh b. S̲h̲ihāb az-Zuhrī; died 124 AH/741-2 CE), also referred to as Ibn Shihab or az-Zuhri, was a tabi'i Arab jurist and traditionist credited with pioneering the development of sīra-maghazi and hadith literature.

Raised in Medina, he studied hadith and maghazi under Medinese traditionists before rising to prominence at the Umayyad court, where he served in a number of religious and administrative positions. He transmitted several thousand hadith included in the six canonical Sunni hadith collections and his work on maghazi forms the basis of the extant biographies of Muhammad.^[1][2] His relationship with the Umayyads has been debated by both early and modern Sunnis, Shias and Western orientalists.