al-Amīr, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Haykel, Bernard
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl a l-Amīr (d. 1182/1769), more commonly known as Ibn al-Amīr al-Ṣanʿānī, was a leading representative of a Sunnī reformist and ḥadīth- oriented movement among the Zaydīs in Yemen. Like Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr (d. 840/1434), al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-Jalāl (d. 1084/1673), and Ṣāliḥ b. Mahdī al-Maqbalī (d. 1108/1696) before him, Ibn al-Amīr argued forcefully that the canonical Sunnī ḥadīth collections were unconditionally authoritative in religious matters. A prolific author, he was deeply influential in the