Abū Nuʿaim

Abū Nuʿaim al-Isfahānī ( Arabic أبو نعيم الأصـفـهـانـي, DMG Abū Nuʿaim al-Iṣfahānī ; born in January / February 948 ; died on October 23, 1038 in Isfahan ) was a Persian theologian from the Shafi'ite school of law ( madhhab ) and a famous collector of hadith . He is the author of more than a hundred papers.

Life

Abū Nuʿaim came from a Persian family and was a contemporary of Avicennas . His grandfather was a well-known ascetic who converted to Islam. His father was a scholar. From the age of six, Abū Nuʿaim received lessons from important teachers. From 967 he traveled to the Hejaz , Iraq and Khorasan . Bitter disputes between the Shafiʿites and Hanbalites later led to the fact that he was no longer allowed to enter the great mosque of Isfahan and even had to leave the city. This is said to have saved his life, since Masud I of Ghazni conquered the city and caused a massacre in the mosque.

Works

• Ḥilyat al-auliyāʾ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyāʾ ( The jewelry of the friends of God and the classes of the righteous ), collection of biographies of pious men and women from early Islam to the 10th century, which Abū Nuʿaim attributed to Sufik . The Beirut edition (Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīya, 1987) comprises ten digitized volumes . Abū Nuʿaim gives a description of the Ahl as-Suffa in the first and second volumes . Muhammad Al-Akili created an English selection translation of the work entitled "The Beauty of the Righteous & Ranks of the Elite: A Collection of 1000 Rare Accounts of the Blessed Companions of God's Messenger Muhammad" (Pearl Publishing House 1995).
• Dalāʾil an-nubūwa (evidence of the prophet status of the Prophet Muḥammad). The work was printed in Haidarābād (Maṭbaʾat Maǧlis Dāʾirat al-maʿārif al-ʿuṯmānīya) and translated into English by Sameh Strauch under the title Virtues of the Prophet revealed in the Quran (Ibn Mas'ud Institute, 2005)
• Kitāb Ḏikr aḫbār Iṣbahān ( History of Isfahan ). The work was edited from the Leiden manuscript by Sven Dedering (Brill, Leiden , 1931–1934).
• Ṭibb an-nabī (" The Prophet's Medicine ")

literature

• GF Haddad (Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad ): Abu Nu`aym al-Asbahani - sunnah.org
• Christopher Melchert: Abū Nu'aym's Sources for Ḥilyat al ‑ awliyā ', Sufi and Traditionist , pp. 145–159 (from: Geneviève Gobillot, Jean-Jacques Thibon: Les maîtres soufis et leurs disciples des IIIe-Ve siècles de l'hégire (IXe-XIe): Enseignement, formation et transmission (Études arabes, médiévales et modern) Presses de l'Ifpo, 2012)
• Ömer Recep: The prophetic medicine in Ibn as-Sunnī and Abū Nu'aim: with special consideration of the chapters on headache, eye, nose, dental diseases and hemorrhoids. Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1969.