The Seven Fuqaha of Medina (Arabic: فقهاء المدينة السبعة), commonly referred to as The Seven Fuqaha (Arabic: الفقهاء السبعة), are seven experts in Islamic jurisprudence who lived around the same time in the Islamic holy city of Medina.
[1] These seven religious scholars were also muftis and were among the largest contributors to the transmission of hadith in the second generation following the Islamic prophet Muhammad, known as the tabi'un.
[1][3] The most popular opinion, voiced by Ibn al-Salah and cited by him as the opinion of most scholars of the Hejaz, is that the seventh faqih in this group is Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman.
[4] Still, Abu al-Zinad, a tabi' al-tabi'in (member of the generation succeeding the tabi'un) and early hadith narrator viewed the seventh as Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi.
[4] This opinion was also voiced by 14th century Islamic scholar Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.