One of the towering scholars of the 9th century, whose massive works have survived to be one of our principal sources of knowledge about early Islam. He wrote a major historical work (running from the beginning of the world into the Abbasid Caliphate), and a monumental tafsir (the earliest we have of the massive "traditional" commentaries). He also founded his own school of law (the Jaririte) but it did not survive.
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