Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri

Muhammad ibn Dawud
Personal life
Bornc. 868 CE
Died909 (aged 4041)
RegionMesopotamia
Main interest(s)Fiqh, Theology, Mysticism
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceZahiri
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣbahānī, also known as Avendeath, was a medieval theologian and scholar of the Arabic language and Islamic law. He was one of the early propagators of his father Dawud al-Zahiri's method in jurisprudence, Zahirism.