Qatadah
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
قتادة · Qatādah
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Basran traditionist named alongside al-Zuhrī in the generation that received from the Successors.
From them such men as Masrūq, Ibn al-Musayyab, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, al-Shaʻbī and ʻUrwah carried it, and their like among the people of hadith, the masters of transmission and of understanding, of truthfulness and worship, of exactness and abstinence — those whose students were such men as al-Zuhrī, Qatādah, al-Aʻmash, Ibn Juḥādah, Ayyūb and Ibn ʻAwn;
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The early exegete who said the Spirit of the verse is Jibrīl, and who reported that Ibn ʻAbbās used to keep this concealed.
Ibn Jarīr transmitted from Qatādah, on the interpretation of the verse « And they ask you about the Spirit », that he said: