Jabir ibn Zayd

Abu al-Sha'tha Jabir ibn Zayd al-Yahmadi al-Azdi (Arabic: أبو الشعثاء جابر بن زيد اليحمدي الأزدي, romanized: ʾAbū al-Shaʿthaʾ Jābir ibn Zayd al-Yaḥmadī al-ʾAzdī) was an Islamic scholar, theologian and one of the founding figures of the Ibadis, the third major denomination of Islam. He was from the Tabi‘un, or second generation of Islam, and took leadership of the denomination after the death of Abd-Allah ibn Ibadh.

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