Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-Ẓāhirī was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian during the Islamic Golden Age, specialized in the study of Islamic law and the fields of hermeneutics, biographical evaluation, and historiography of early... Wikipedia
Born: 815 AD, Kufa, Iraq
Died: 883 AD (age 68 years), Baghdad, Iraq
Parents: Ali bin Khalaf al-Zahiri
Children: Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri
Creed: Atharī
Jurisprudence: Ahl al-Ḥadīth/Ijtihad (independent)