Facts:   - influences: jaʿfar ibn muhammad al-sādiq    - death date: 778 716/161 '' 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 .
sufyan ath-thawri ibn said -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 716 -- 778 -rrb- was a '' Ṫābi ` al-Ṫābi ` īn '' 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 .