Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri

Imam
Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri
Imam Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri
ٱبۡن شِهَاب ٱلزُّهْرِيّ
Personal life
Born	between 49 AH (669/670CE) and 53 AH (672/673CE); Medina, Umayyad Caliphate
Died	123 AH (740/741CE) or 124 AH (741/742CE); Shaghb wa-Bada, Umayyad Caliphate
Region	Syria, Hejaz
Main interest(s)	Hadith, prophetic biography, fiqh
Relations	Abd Allah ibn Muslim al-Zuhri (brother)
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Urwah ibn Zubayr, Said ibn al-Musayyib, Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah, Abu Salama 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; (مُحَمَّد)
Patronymic (Nasab)	Ibn Muslim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn S̲h̲ihāb; (بۡن مُسْلِمِ بۡنِ عُبَيْدِ ٱللهِ بۡنِ عَبۡد ٱللهِ بۡن شِهَابِ)
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abū Bakr; (أَبُو بَكْرٍ)
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Zuhrī; (ٱلزُّهْرِيّ)

Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بۡنُ مُسْلِمَ بۡنِ عُبَیْدِ ٱللهِ بۡنِ عَبۡدِ ٱللهِ بۡنِ شِهَابٍ ٱلزُّهْرِيّ, romanized: Abu Bakr 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. His relationship with the Umayyads has been debated by both early and modern Sunnis, Shias and Western orientalists.