Hafs Bin Ghayyath Al-Nakhaee

Abstract

The study of figures in Arabic Islamic history is one of the important studies for that a large number of scholars and authors shifted to do in order to shed light on these figures and on how they reached this stage in their life. Most of them, except the precedent , were sons of scholars , scientists and modernists and they were taught by their fathers or relatives who represented their teachers among them is the major concern of the study, Hafs bin Ghayyath Al-Nakhaee. He grew up in Kufa city which was one of the centers of science and knowledge in Iraq. He grew up in an Islamic and cultural family that served Islam and was concerned with science. Through this situation, Hafs' personality was formed and became varied who, in turn, got to be a source for those who wrote in biographies and history. The study aims at surveying Hafs Bin Ghayyath's biography in terms of his name , family , surname , birth , growing , class , characteristics , morals, sciences , relatives , what is said about him , and death.