Ar-Rabi' ibn Sulayman al-Muradi

Abū Muḥammad al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī (c. 790–884 CE) was an Egyptian Muslim jurist, hadith scholar, and one of the foremost transmitters of the works and teachings of Imam al-Shāfiʿī. He is considered among the most important early authorities of the Shafi'i school because much of al-Shāfiʿī's later doctrine was preserved through his narrations.^[1]

Al-Rabīʿ was born in Egypt. He became a close student of Imam al-Shāfiʿī during the latter's final years after the imam settled in Egypt. He carefully transmitted al-Shāfiʿī's teachings, legal opinions, and books and became one of the principal authorities through whom the Egyptian recension of Shāfiʿī doctrine was preserved.^[2]

Biographical scholars describe him as reliable, precise in transmission, and devoted to scholarship.^[3]

Al-Rabīʿ is especially known as a primary narrator of:

• Al-Umm — al-Shāfiʿī's major legal compendium
• al-Risāla — foundational treatise on legal theory

Many surviving manuscripts and chains of transmission of these works pass through him, which made his narrations central to the formation of later Shāfiʿī jurisprudence.^[4]

Among those who transmitted from or studied with him were Egyptian jurists and hadith scholars who continued spreading Shāfiʿī doctrine after the first generation of the school.^[5]

Within the Shāfiʿī tradition, al-Rabīʿ is regarded as one of the most trustworthy transmitters of the school's foundational texts. Later jurists frequently relied on his narrations when determining the authentic positions of al-Shāfiʿī.^[6]

Al-Rabīʿ was born and lived in Egypt. He became a close student of Imam al-Shāfiʿī during the latter's final years after the imam settled in Egypt. He carefully transmitted al-Shāfiʿī's teachings, legal opinions, and books and became one of the principal authorities through whom the Egyptian recension of Shāfiʿī doctrine was preserved.^[1]

Biographical scholars describe him as reliable, precise in transmission, and devoted to scholarship.^[2]

Al-Rabīʿ is especially known as a primary narrator of:

• Al-Umm — al-Shāfiʿī's major legal compendium
• al-Risāla — foundational treatise on legal theory

Many surviving manuscripts and chains of transmission of these works pass through him, which made his narrations central to the formation of later Shāfiʿī jurisprudence.^[3]

Among those who transmitted from or studied with him were Egyptian jurists and hadith scholars who continued spreading Shāfiʿī doctrine after the first generation of the school.^[4]

Within the Shāfiʿī tradition, al-Rabīʿ is regarded as one of the most trustworthy transmitters of the school's foundational texts. Later jurists frequently relied on his narrations when determining the authentic positions of al-Shāfiʿī.^[5]