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The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree 
Compiled By Salaahud-Deen ibn 'Alee ibn 'Abdul-Maujood
Translator: Faisal ibn Muhammad Shafeeq
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Imam Sufiyan Ath-Thauree: A True Mountain of Knowledge the Leader of Believers in Hadeeth

About Imam Sufiyan Ath-Thauree

He was a scholar who illuminated the world with his knowledge and who revived certain aspects of the Prophet's Sunnah that would otherwise have been forgotten. He is a revered and noble scholar, a status he earned although he fled from all forms of fame and popularity throughout his life, which has been a good example of piety, purity, worship, righteousness. humbleness, fearfulness and repentance.

Life of One of the earliest Scholars, Imam and Hadith Master 97HH

'It is He Who has created for you all things that are on earth; Moreover His design comprehended the heavens, for He gave order and perfection to the seven firmaments; and of all things He has perfect knowledge.

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Imām Sufyān al-Thawri
ٍ bu Eesa Niamatullah
Ustādh A

He is Imām Sufyān b. Sa‘īd b. Masrūq Abu ‘Abdillāh al-Thawri radhy Allāhu ‘anhu,
Shaykh’l-Islām, Sayyid’l-‘Ulemā in his time, al-Hāfidh, Amīr’l-Mu’minīn in Hadīth
and a Mujtahid to boot.

He was born in Kūfah in the year 97h and learnt from his Muhaddith father Sa‘īd b.
Masrūq (radhy Allāhu ‘anhu) who was one of the companions of Sha‘bi and
Khaythamah and thus from the younger Tābi‘īn.

Ibn al-Mubārak said,

“I’ve written Hadīth from scholars but I never wrote from better than Sufyān.”

Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyāni said,

“I never met anyone better from Kūfah than Sufyān.”

Barā’ said that he heard Yūnus b. ‘Ubayd say,

“I never saw anyone as great as Sufyān.” It was then said to him, “But you’ve seen
Sa‘īd b. Jubayr, Ibrahīm, ‘Atā’ and Mujāhid!” Yūnus replied, “As I said, I never saw
anyone as great as Sufyān.”

‘Abd’l-Rahmān b. al-Mahdi said,

“My eyes have not seen the likes of four: I never saw anyone who had preserved the
Hadīth more than Sufyān, no-one who was as strict upon himself as Shu‘bah was, no-
one who was as intelligent as Mālik and no-one who was as sincere in his counsel to
the Ummah as ibn al-Mubārak.”

Yahya b. Sa‘īd al-Qattān said in an amazing statement,

“There is no-one as beloved to me as Shu‘bah and no-one is equal to him but if Sufyān
differs with him, I take the statement of Sufyān.”

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The point here is that according to the scholars of Hadīth, Yahya b. Sa‘īd al-Qattān has
no equal in the science of Hadīth, of the most strictest of them in critical appraisal of
narrators, so for him to say this is truly incredible.

‘Abd’l-Rahmān b. al-Mahdi said,

“Abu Ishāq saw Sufyān whilst he was still young and remarked, “And we gave him
wisdom when a child.” (Maryum, 12)””

Sufyān b. ‘Uyaynah said,

“I never met anyone more knowledgeable about the halāl and harām than Sufyān al-
Thawri.”

Ibn al-Mubārak said,

“I never met anyone described

Legal school in Sunni Islam

The Thawri school (Arabic: الثورية) was a short-lived school of fiqh. Its founder was Sufyan al-Thawri, a great 8th century scholar, jurist and hadith compiler.

History

Sufyan al-Thawri was born in Kufa in , and became the main scholar of fiqh of the city's hadith school. He held similar views to that of his contemporary, Abu Hanifa, founder of the Hanafi school of fiqh, though he opposed Abu Hanifa's use of qiyas and istihsan.

After al-Thawri's move to Basra later in his life, his jurisprudential thought (usul) became more closely aligned to that of the Umayyads and of al-Awza'i.

He spent the last year of his life hiding after a dispute between him and the AbbasidCaliphMuhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi. The Caliph had sent a letter to al-Thawri requesting him to accept the post of judge of Kufa on the condition that he did not make any judgment or ruling in opposition to the state policy. Al-Thawri tore this letter up and threw it into the Tigris river in disgust. After his death, the Thawri school was taken up by his students, including notably Yahya al-Qattan. However, his school did not survive, but his jurisprudential thought and especially hadith transmission are highly regarded in Islam, and have influenced all the major schools, although not in the form of organized school like other madhhabs.

Disappearance

The disappearance of al-Thawri's school can be attributed to two factors. The first of these is that he spent the greater part of his life in hiding due to his differences with the state. Unable to cultivate a large following because of this, no major group of students could carry on his work. The second of these reasons is that despite having created fairly extensive compilations of hadith and their interpretations, al-Thawri instructed his principal student, Ammar ibn Sayf, to destroy and burn all of his works. Th

Muslim scholar, jurist, and ascetic (–)

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza al-Thawrī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْرَة ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ; – CE / 97– AH), commonly known as Sufyān al-Thawrī (Arabic: سُفْيَان ٱلثَّوْرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslimscholar, jurist, ascetic, traditionist, and eponymous founder of the Thawri school of Islamic jurisprudence, considered one of the Eight Ascetics.

Name and lineage

Sufyan al-Thawri's full name is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza ibn Ḥabīb ibn Mawhiba ibn Naṣr ibn Thaʿlaba ibn Malakān ibn Thawr al-Thawrī al-Rabābī al-Tamīmī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْرَة بْن حَبِيب بْن مَوْهِبَة بْن نَصْر بْن ثَعْلَبَة بْن مَلَكَان بْن ثَوْر ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلرَّبَابِيّ ٱلتَّمِيمِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ).

Biography

Sufyan al-Thawri was born in Khorosan. His nisba, al-Thawri, is derived from his ancestor Thawr ibn Abd Manah. He moved to Kufa for his education, and in his youth supported the family of Ali ibn Abi Talib against the Umayyad Caliphate. By , he had moved to Basra, where he met Abd Allah ibn Awn and Ayyub al-Sikhtiyani. He learned some aspects of Shiasm from them, which he later abandoned. It is said the Umayyad authorities offered him high office positions; however, he consistently declined. It is narrated he refused to give to the caliphs moral and religious advice, and when asked why, he responded: "When the sea overflows, who can dam it up?" He was also quoted to have said to a companion of his, "Beware of drawing close and associating with the rulers; do not be deceived by being told that you can drive inequity away. All of this is the deceit of the Devil, which the wicked reciters have taken as a ladder [to self promotion