Facts: - influences: jafar ibn muhammad al-sadiq - death date: 778716/161 '' hijri '' - region: muslim scholar - school tradition: islam - name: '' ' sufyan ath-thawri ibn said '' ' - color: #b 0c4de - influenced: dawud al-zahiri - era: islamic golden age Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sufyan al-thawri .
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sufyan ath-thawri ibn said -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 716 -- 778 -rrb- was a '' Tabi ' al-Tabi ' in '' islamic scholar , hafiz and jurist , founder of the thawri madhhab .he was also a hadith compiler , of whom a great number of anecdotes are recorded .