The Evolution of Fiqh(5.10 THE JAREEREE MAHHAB)

The founder: Imaam at-Tabaree (839-923 CE)

This Madh-hab was founded by Muhammad ibn Jareer ibn

Yazeed at-Tabaree who was born in the province of Tabaristan in the

year 839 CE. He acquired a high degree of proficiency in the fields

of Hadeeth, Fiqh, and history. As a travelling jurist, he studied the

systems of Imaam Abu Haneefah, Imaam Maalik, Imaam ash-

Shafi’ee and others. For the first ten years after his return from Egypt

he strictly followed the Shaafi’ee Madh-hab. At the end of that

period he founded a school of his own, whose followers called

themselves Jareerites after his father’s name. But his Madh-hab and

fell comparatively quickly into oblivion.

Ibn Jareer was most noted for his outstanding Tafseer of the

Qur’aan which he called Jaami’al-Bayaan, but which became

known as Tafseer at-Tabaree. Of equal importance and fame was

his history of the world called Taareekh ar-Rusul wal-Mulook,

commonly known as Taareekh at-Tabaree.
Tareekh at-Tshree’ al-Islaamee, pp. 182, 183