His father, named Mubarak, was of Indian or Turkic descent from
Khurasan and became a
Mawla or "client" of an Arab trader from the tribe of Banī Hanẓala in the city of
Hamadhān. His mother was said to have been from
Khwārizm. Mubarak later married Hind, a trader's daughter. He was also known for defending Islamic borders (
see ribat) on the frontiers
of Tarsus and al-Massisah. He was born at Marw in the year 118 (A.D. 736). He died in 797
at Hīt, near
the Euphrates, during the reign
of Harun al-Rashid. He studied jurisprudence
under Sufyān al-Thawrī, and Malak Ibn Anas from whom he learned by heart the
Muwatta, and then taught it to others. He was the first scholar to give the hadiths in the Khorasan region, where many great scholars grew up, especially in Merv, is one of the reasons that increase the fame of Ibn al-Mubarak. ==Works==