Al-Fakihi

Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn al-'Abbas al-Fakihi (, born 215–220 AH; died 272-279 AH) was an eminent 9th-century historian and hadith scholar of Mecca. He narrated hadiths from preeminent hadith scholars such as Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Abu Hatim al-Razi and Abu Zur'ah Jurjani.

Works

• Akhbār Makkah fÄ« qadÄ«m al-dahr wa-ḥadÄ«thih (أخبار مكة في قديم الدهر وحديثه): The book, of which only the second half survived to the present day, was praised by Ibn Hajar and Taqi al-Din al-Fasi. A small portion of the work was edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld.

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