Ibn Bābawaih

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Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn ʿAlī Ibn Bābawaih (or Ibn Bābūyih ) al-Qummī ( Arabic أبو جعفر محمد بن علي ابن بابويه القمي, DMG Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Ibn Bābawaih al-Qummī , b. 918 in Qom ; died 991 ), also Sheikh Sadūq (الصدوق, DMG aṣ-Ṣadūq 'the truth lover ') was an important Imamitic hadith scholar of the Twelve Shia . His hadith collection Man lā yaḥḍuru-ūh al-faqīh is one of the canonical Four Books of the Twelve Shia.

The Kamal ad-Din Sheikh Saduq

Life

Muhammad Ibn Bābawaih was the son of the well-known Shiite scholar Ali ibn Husain Ibn Bābawaih al-Qummī (d. 939). As a young man he traveled to different places to learn about traditions. His first stops after leaving Qom included Rey , the capital of the Buyids , Mashhad , Nishapur and again Raiy. At the end of 353 (= 964 AD) he left Raiy to go on Hajj . On his way back from Mecca at the beginning of the following year, he traveled through Iraq and stayed for a while in Kufa and Baghdad . In Baghdad, al-Sheikh al-Mufid heard hadith from him. He returned to Raiy via the city of Hamadan .

A second journey, which started in 978, took him east. He visited Mashhad , Balkh , Samarkand and the Fergana Valley . He spent the last years of his life in Raiy. He was buried there too. His tomb is near the resting place of Abdul Azim Hasani in the city in a place now named Ibn Babawaih after him.

Works

Ibn Bābawaih wrote about 300 books and treatises. His works include:

  • ʿUyūn Aḫbār ar-Riḍā , collection of news about the Shiite imam ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ar-Ridā , numerous printed editions, most recently Qum 1378hš 1st volume  - Internet Archive , 2nd volume  - Internet Archive .
  • Man lā yaḥḍuru-ūh al-faqīh ("Who has no legal scholar in his vicinity") is a Shiite collection of hadiths comprising 5,920 hadiths . In its appendix the connections of the author to the narrator are listed.
  • ʿIlal aš-šarāʾiʿ wa-l-aḥkām wa-l-asbāb , systematic treatise that deals in a large number of chapters with the causal connections of life, nature, history and scholarship.
  • Iʿtiqādāt al-Imāmīya , Imamitic confession , on which his disciple al-Sheikh al-Mufīd wrote a critical commentary entitled Taṣḥīḥ al- Iʿtiqād.
  • Kamal ad-Din wa Tamam an-Ni'ma

literature

  • AAA Fyzee : Ibn Bābawaih (i). In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Volume III: H-Iram. Brill, Leiden 1986, ISBN 90-04-08118-6 , pp. 726b.-727a.
  • Martin McDermott: Ebn Bābawayh (2). In: Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume VIII, pp. 2-4 ( digitized version ).
  • Moojan Momen: An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism . Yale University Press, New Haven, 1985. pp. 313 f.
  • A. Pākatčī: Ebn-e Bābūya. In: Dāʾirat-i maʿārif-i buzurg-i islāmī. Markaz-i Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, Volume III: Ibn Azraq Ibn Smn. Tehran, 1990, pp. 62-66 ( digitized version ).
  • Fuat Sezgin : History of Arabic Literature. Volume 1: Qurānwissenschaften, Ḥadīṯ, history, fiqh, dogmatics, mysticism up to approx. 430 H. Brill, Leiden 1967. pp. 544–549.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Pākatčī: Ebn-e Babuya. In: DMBI. Volume III, p. 63a.
  2. ↑ Pākatčī: Ebn-e Babuya. In: DMBI. Volume III, pp. 63b-64a.
personal data
SURNAME Ibn Bābawaih
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohammad Ibn Ali Ibn Musa Ibn Babawaih Qummi; Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAlī Ibn-Bābūya; Sheikh Saduq; Ibn Bābawayh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Shiite scholar of the Twelve Shiites; Author of the Man la yahduruh al-faqih
DATE OF BIRTH 918
PLACE OF BIRTH Qum
DATE OF DEATH 991