Abū l-Qāsim at-Tabarānī

Abū l-Qāsim Sulaimān ibn Ahmad al-Lachmī at-Tabarānī ( Arabic ابو القاسم سليمان بن احمدت اللخمي الطبراني, DMG Abū l-Qāsim Sulaimān ibn Aḥmad al-Laḫmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī ; born in 873 in Tiberias ; died 971 in Isfahan ) was an important hadith scholar who was best known for his three Muʿdscham works. The name at-Tabarānī is a Nisba to his hometown Tiberias. His Nisba al-Lachmī refers to his descent from the Arab tribe of the Banū Lachm .

Already in his youth, At-Tabarānī went on an extensive journey to the collection of hadiths, which took him through various Islamic countries ( Syria , Iraq , Hejaz , Yemen and Egypt ). His teachers included Abū Zurʿa ad-Dimashqī, at-Tabarī and an-Nasāʾī . Around 902 he settled in Isfahan, where he lived and received a pension until his death.

At-Tabarānī summarized the hadiths he collected in three lexicons called Muendscham :

1. "The great lexicon" ( al-Muʿǧam al-kabīr ), a collection of approx. 25,000 hadiths, arranged according to the names of the Sahāba , to which the relevant traditions in Isnād are traced back.
2. "The middle encyclopedia" ( al-Muʿǧam al-ausa Had ), hadith collection in 6 volumes arranged alphabetically according to the names of his sheikhs .
3. "The little encyclopedia" ( al-Muʿǧam aṣ-ṣaġīr ), a collection arranged alphabetically according to the names of his sheikhs, in which only one hadith is given by each sheikh.

At-Tabarānī has also compiled various other works, including a multi-volume collection of hadiths on supplications .

Abū l-Qāsim at-Tabarānī should not be confused with Abū Saʿīd Maimūn ibn Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī (d. 1034/35), an important religious authority of the Nusairians .

literature

• Carl Brockelmann : History of Arabic Literature. Leiden 1937-1949, Supplement I, page 279.
• Maribel Fierro: Article al-Ṭabarānī. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Volume X, pp. 10b-11a.
• Fuat Sezgin : History of Arabic Literature. 1. Volume: Qur'ānwissenschaften, Hadīṯ, Geschichte, Fiqh, Dogmatik, Mystik up to approx. 430 H. Leiden 1967, pp. 195–197.
• Muḥammad Zubayr Ṣiddīqī: Ḥadīth Literature. Its origin, development & special features. Cambridge 1993, p. 72.