al-Askari, al-Hasan ibn Rashiq
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al-Hasan ibn Rashiq al-Askari (283–370 AH / 896–980 CE) was an Egyptian hadith scholar and the leading transmitter (musnid) of Egypt in his era .
Life and Education
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Rashiq al-Askari al-Misri was attributed to Askar Misr, an administrative quarter in Egypt, and served as a judicial assessor (muʿaddal) . His brother, Ahmad ibn Rashiq, also studied and recorded hadith . Ibn Rashiq related that he was born on Monday morning, four nights into Safar 283 AH . He began hearing traditions as an adolescent and lived a long life, acquiring exceptionally elevated chains of transmission (ʿulūw al-isnād) . Beyond hadith, he was versed in the Arabic language and Quranic readings .
Ibn Rashiq studied under numerous authorities in Egypt and the Hijaz, transmitting copiously from al-Nasa'i, as well as from Ahmad ibn Hammad ibn Muslim al-Tujibi (known as Ibn Zughbah), Ali ibn Sa'id ibn Bashir al-Razi, Yamut ibn al-Muzarra' al-Basri, al-Mufaddal ibn Muhammad al-Jundi, and Abu Dujanah Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ma'afiri . His prominent students included al-Daraqutni, Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id, Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Nahhas, Ismail ibn Amr al-Haddad, and Yahya ibn Ali ibn al-Tahhan, alongside narrators traveling from North Africa and Andalusia . His narrations were compiled into specialized audition tracts, including a selection extracted by al-Daraqutni and his biographical part on Makkan teachers, Shuyukh Makkah .
He died in Jumada al-Akhira 370 AH, though an alternative report places his death in Jumada al-Ula of the same year .
Scholarly Standing and Reception
Ibn Rashiq was recognized as the principal traditionist of Egypt, with contemporaries noting the extraordinary breadth of his transmissions; his student Ibn al-Tahhan observed that he had not encountered any scholar with a larger corpus of hadith .
A group of scholars declared him reliable (thiqah) . However, Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id slightly weakened his evaluation of him, and al-Daraqutni criticized him for readily altering and revising his original manuscripts based on suggestions from others . Defending him, Abu al-Abbas al-Nahhal maintained that Ibn Rashiq remained fundamentally trustworthy, noting that the only flaw identified by al-Daraqutni was his practice of amending texts when prompted .
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List of Works
Juz al-Hasan ibn Rashiq al-Askari is a hadith booklet (juzʾ) containing a selection of narrations transmitted from teachers during dictation assemblies (amālī). An audition text preserving selected traditions extracted from dictation sessions, the compilation has also been designated in manuscript copies and bibliographical registers as Juzʾ min Fawāʾid Ibn Rashīq or identified as the nineteenth part of the compiler's hadiths.