Jahm bin Safwan

Islamic theologian (c.696–c.745 CE)

Jahm bin Safwan (Arabic: جَهْم بن صَفْوان, romanized: Jahm ibn Ṣafwān) was an Islamic theologian of the Umayyad period and whose name has given rise to the Jahmiyya moniker. During his lifetime, he attached himself to the rebel leader Al-Harith ibn Surayj, a dissident in Khurasan. He was executed in 745 by Salm ibn Ahwaz.

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