Akram Ziyada al-Faluji
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Akram Ziyada al-Faluji (Abu Muhammad ʿAli Akram ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn Ziyada al-Faluji al-Athari) is a contemporary Jordanian researcher in Hadith and transmitter criticism based in Amman, known for his biographical studies on the transmitters of Ibn Jarir al-Tabari.
Background and Scholarly Influences
Al-Faluji resides and works in Amman in the Balqa region of Jordan. He adheres to the Athari and Salafi tradition in creed and hadith scholarship. In his writings, he acknowledges modern Salafi hadith figures as key influences upon his scholarship, explicitly naming Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani as his principal shaykh, alongside Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi'i and Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Raymi.
Research and Method
Al-Faluji’s research focuses primarily on indexing, identifying, and evaluating the chains of transmission preserved across the published works of the early historian and exegete Ibn Jarir al-Tabari—principally his Quranic commentary, his universal history, Tahdhib al-Athar, and Sarih al-Sunnah, which together contain more than 45,000 transmitted reports.
His biographical dictionary Mu'jam Shuyukh al-Tabari was structured to document and evaluate al-Tabari’s direct informants, comprising 774 biographical entries for more than 400 distinct teachers, correcting scribal distortions or omissions in the printed corpora, and detailing their evaluations in biographical literature. In a related reference work, al-Mu'jam al-Saghir li-Ruwat al-Imam Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, he compiled concise entries for the transmitters appearing in those isnads, modeled on concise classical narrator dictionaries.
Reception
Al-Faluji’s biographical compilations were endorsed by several Jordanian hadith specialists and academic scholars, including Ali ibn Hasan al-Halabi, Mashhur ibn Hasan Salman, Salim ibn ʿId al-Hilali, Basim ibn Faysal al-Jawabirah, and Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzaq al-Raʿud. Al-Halabi praised his systematic coverage of al-Tabari's teachers as a pioneering initiative in the field, while al-Jawabirah commended his thoroughness in correcting corrupted names and cross-referencing narrators across canonical collections.
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al-Mu‘jam al-Saghir li-Ruwat al-Imam Ibn Jarir al-Tabari is a biographical reference work that compiles concise entries for the male and female transmitters appearing in the isnads of the published works of the classical historian and exegete Ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Serving as the second installment of a five-part project on al-Tabari's transmitted legacy, the work contains 7,214 numbered entries organized into 44 sections, drawing upon four primary source texts: Jami‘ al-Bayan, Tarikh al-Umam wa-al-Muluk, Tahdhib al-Athar, and Sarih al-Sunnah.
Mu‘jam Shuyūkh al-Ṭabarī is a biographical reference work dedicated to documenting, identifying, and evaluating all direct teachers from whom Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari narrated across his published works preserved with chains of transmission. The dictionary comprises 774 biographical entries covering over 400 distinct direct teachers cited across more than 45,000 transmitted reports in Jāmi‘ al-Bayān, Tārīkh al-Umam wa-al-Mulūk, Tahdhīb al-Āthār, and Ṣarīḥ al-Sunnah.