al-Ṣaffār al-Bukhārī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Brodersen, Angelika
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Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl b. Abī Naṣr (or b. Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. Shayth b. al-Ḥakam) al-Ṣaffār al-Bukhārī al-Zāhid (d. 534/1139) was an important representative of the theological school of Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. c. 333/944). The alternative name Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, recorded by Brockelmann in his GAL , is found only in the British Museum manuscript no. 1577, Add. 27526, and is presumably erroneous, since the few biobibliographical sources that mention al-Ṣaffār call him Ibn Ismāʿīl. Al-Ṣaffār, who was first