al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Affan
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al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Affan (d. 270 AH / 883 CE) was a Kufan hadith scholar and transmitter (musnid) known for narrating several regional compilations, including the Kitab al-Kharaj of Yahya ibn Adam.
Identity and Background
His full name was al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Affan al-Amiri al-Kufi, and his primary kunya was Abu Muhammad, though Maslama ibn al-Qasim al-Andalusi also reported his kunya as Abu Ali. He was the brother of the Kufan hadith scholar and Quran reciter (muqri) Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Affan (d. 277 AH).
Hadith Transmission
Al-Hasan was based in Kufa and did not travel abroad in pursuit of traditions; instead, he studied locally under more than twenty Kufan authorities. Among his prominent teachers were Abd Allah ibn Numayr, Abu Usama Hammad ibn Usama, Zayd ibn al-Hubab, Ja'far ibn Awn, Asbat ibn Muhammad, Imran ibn Uyayna, Mu'awiya ibn Hisham, and Yahya ibn Adam.
A substantial group of scholars transmitted hadith from him, including Ibn Majah in his Sunan, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim, Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Sarraj, Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Saffar, Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Zubayr al-Qurashi, Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Kas al-Qadi, and Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dulabi.
Standing and Disputed Narrations
Al-Hasan was widely regarded as a dependable narrator. Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim deemed him truthful (saduq), and Ibn Hibban listed him in his compilation of trustworthy transmitters (Kitab al-Thiqat). Al-Daraqutni stated that al-Hasan and his brother Muhammad were both trustworthy (thiqatan), and Maslama ibn al-Qasim described him as a trustworthy Kufan scholar. Al-Hakim al-Naysaburi also included his narrations in his hadith collection.
Biographers addressed a confusion regarding whether Abu Dawud narrated from him. Ibn Asakir initially recorded in Shuyukh al-Nubal that Abu Dawud narrated from al-Hasan, based on an isolated chain transmitted by Abu Bakr ibn Dasah in the Sunan regarding a ring tradition. Later critics, including Ibn Asakir in his Atraf and al-Dhahabi, clarified that this was an interpolation or misattribution; al-Hasan had not traveled to the shaykhs in that chain, and the narrator intended was rather al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Hulwani (or al-Khallal).
Death
According to Ibn Uqda, al-Hasan died on the first night of Safar 270 AH. Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Munadi recorded that news of his death reached Baghdad from Kufa one week prior to the passing of the scholar Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Saghani, who died on Thursday, 7 Safar 270 AH.
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al-Amali wal-Qiraa (The Dictations and Recitation) is a ninth-century hadith booklet (juz') consisting of prophetic traditions and early reports compiled with full chains of transmission (isnad). It contains texts that were dictated (amali) or read aloud (qira'ah) during scholarly sessions.