Tawus ibn Kaysan

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Tawus ibn Kaysan was a prominent early Islamic scholar and jurist of Yemen, renowned as one of the leading Tabi'un and a major authority in hadith and legal knowledge.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic scholar
Tabi'i
Yemeni scholar
faqih
hadith scholar
associatedWith Meccan scholarly circle
Yemeni scholarly tradition
authorityIn Qur'anic exegesis
fiqh
hadith
deathPlace Mecca NERFINISHED
era early Islamic period
generation second generation of Muslims
hadithReliability thiqa (trustworthy)
knownFor Islamic jurisprudence
asceticism
hadith transmission
piety
language Arabic
legalSchool pre-madhhab early fiqh
madhhabInfluence influenced later Sunni legal thought
mentionedIn biographical dictionaries of rijal
canonical Sunni hadith collections
notableCharacteristic humility
scrupulousness in religious matters
strict adherence to the Sunnah
performed Hajj NERFINISHED
praisedBy Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani NERFINISHED
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal NERFINISHED
Yahya ibn Ma'in NERFINISHED
region Yemen NERFINISHED
religion Islam
residence Yemen NERFINISHED
studiedUnder Abdullah ibn Abbas NERFINISHED
Abdullah ibn Umar NERFINISHED
Abu Hurayrah NERFINISHED
Aisha bint Abi Bakr NERFINISHED
Zayd ibn Thabit NERFINISHED
many senior Sahaba
teacherOf Amr ibn Dinar NERFINISHED
Ata ibn Abi Rabah NERFINISHED
Ibn Jurayj NERFINISHED
Mujahid ibn Jabr NERFINISHED
Qatada ibn Di‘ama NERFINISHED
many Yemeni and Meccan scholars
tribalAffiliation freedman (mawla) associated with the tribe of Hamdan (per traditional reports)
visited Mecca NERFINISHED
Medina NERFINISHED

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Abd Allah ibn Abbas teacherOf Tawus ibn Kaysan