Abu al-Raja al-Jarkani
- Died
- 514 AH
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Abu al-Raja al-Jarkani (d. c. 514 AH / 1120 CE) was a Persian hadith scholar and master (hafiz) from Isfahan, known for his hadith collection Juzʾ al-Jarkānī.
Life and scholarship
His full name was Abu al-Raja Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Jarkani, also recorded with his father's patronymic as Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd Ahmad. He took his nisba from Jarkan, a village in the district of Isfahan. He was designated as the hadith instructor and guide (mufīd) of Isfahan during his lifetime, and was noted for his diligence in seeking and accumulating hadith transmissions.
Al-Jarkani studied under a wide circle of notable traditionists in Isfahan. His teachers included Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahim al-Katib, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Rida, Abu al-Fath Mansur ibn al-Husayn al-Katib, Abu al-Fadl Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Razi, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Fadl al-Batirqani, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim, Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Manjuwayh, and the jurist Abu al-Muzaffar Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Sam'ani. In 508 AH, he issued a written certificate of transmission (ijāzah) encompassing all of his direct auditions and authorized narrations to the younger historian Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani. Among those who transmitted from him were Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani and Abu Tahir al-Silafi.
His transmitted work Juzʾ al-Jarkānī circulated among later traditionists; it opens with the well-known narration transmitted through Abu Hurayra regarding the two phrases light on the tongue and concludes with a prophetic narration ending with the words mentioning before the rising of the sun and before its setting.
Death
Al-Jarkani died around 514 AH (1120 CE), having passed away prior to the hadith scholar Abu Ali al-Haddad.
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List of Works
Juz al-Jurkani (Juzʾ al-Jarkānī) is a collection of prophetic narrations belonging to the genre of single-volume hadith tracts (ajzāʾ). The work opens with the tradition transmitted from Abu Hurayra concerning two phrases light on the tongue and concludes with a prophetic report ending with the phrase mentioning before the rising of the sun and before its setting.