Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār
Title	Al-Nassābah ("The Genealogist")
Born	788 CE/172 AH Medina
Died	870 CE/256 AH Mecca
Ethnicity	Arab
Occupation	Arab historian
Religion	Islam
Creed	Sunni
Main interest(s)	History, Genealogy, Poetry

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār (Arabic: أبو عبدالله الزبير بن بكار بن عبد الله بن مصعب بن ثابت بن عبد الله بن الزبير بن العوام‎‎, (788-870 CE / 172-256 AH), a descendant of Al-Zubayr ibn al-ʻAwwām, was a leading Arab Muslim historian and genealogist of the Arabs, particularly the Hijaz region. He composed a number of works on genealogy that made him a standing authority on the subject of the genealogies of the Quraysh tribe. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani regarded him as the most reliable authority for Quraysh genealogical matters.

He was born and raised in Medina and served as qadi in Mecca in 242 AH. In one of his visits to Baghdad, Ibn Bakkar was invited by Al-Mutawakkil to become the tutor to his son.

He died in Mecca after he fell from a roof.

The following is a list of the works attributed to Ibn Bakkar:

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