Abu al-Hasan al-Abdi
- Died
- 599 AH
- Born in
- Basra
Abu al-Hasan al-Abdi (d. 599 AH / 1202 CE) was a Basra-based hadith scholar, literary figure, and prosodist known for his hadith collection Juz al-Abdi.
Biography and Travels
Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Ismail, carrying the kunya Abu al-Hasan and the nisbas al-Abdi and al-Basri, traced his lineage to the tribe of Banu Abd al-Qays. Recognized as a trustworthy (thiqah) traditionist, man of letters, and master of Arabic metrics (arudi), he was active in the sixth century AH. The historian and writer Imad al-Din al-Isfahani met and heard from him in Dhu al-Hijjah 557 AH. Al-Abdi related that he had earlier traveled to al-Qatif in Sha'ban 554 AH, where its ruler, the emir Qiwam al-Din Abu Mansur Aziz ibn al-Muqallad al-Abdi, received him and lodged him in a quarter known as Jadd al-Atash.
Scholarly Transmission and Death
Al-Abdi assembled the traditions he received from his teachers into a hadith tract known as Juz al-Abdi (also titled Takhrij al-Shaykh Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Ismail al-Abdi wa-Riwayatuhu an Shuyukhih). His transmissions were related after him by students such as the scholar Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Hasan ibn Thabit al-Tibi al-Darir, who transmitted the tract to later students in Basra in Rabi' al-Akhir 635 AH. Al-Abdi died in 599 AH (1202 CE).
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List of Works
Juz al-Abdi (Juzʾ al-ʿAbdī, lit. 'The Hadith Tract of al-Abdi') is a hadith compilation gathering narrations and traditions transmitted through scholarly teachers. The work consists of 55 numbered hadiths, prophetic traditions, companion reports, and poetic and biographical anecdotes arranged through diverse chains of transmission.