al-Khazraji, Safi al-Din
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- 924 AH
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Safi al-Din al-Khazraji (b. 900 AH / 1494–1495 CE, d. after 923 AH / 1517 CE) was a hadith scholar and jurist best known for his biographical dictionary of hadith transmitters, Khulasat Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal .
Lineage and Background
His full lineage is recorded as Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Khayr ibn Abd al-Alim ibn Abd Allah ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Sa'idi . He bore the honorific Safi al-Din, and he is also attributed the nisba al-Yamani in biographical sources . He was born in 900 AH (1494–1495 CE) .
Scholarly Contribution
In 923 AH (1517 CE), al-Khazraji compiled his concise handbook on narrator criticism, Khulasat Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal . The book is an abridgment of Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi's Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal, which itself was an epitome of al-Mizzi's biographical dictionary Tahdhib al-Kamal .
Al-Khazraji structured the work to cover narrators featured in the canonical Six Books as well as the additional compilations of their respective authors indexed by al-Mizzi, totaling twenty-five hadith collections . In the introduction to the compilation, he stated that he aimed to provide a condensed reference, establishing the precise vocalization of names that were prone to error and incorporating supplementary biographical notes and death dates from reliable authoritative sources .
Death
Al-Khazraji died after 923 AH (1517 CE), the date of the completion of his biographical dictionary .
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List of Works
Khulasat Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal is a biographical dictionary of hadith narrators compiled in 923 AH (1517 CE). Designed as a concise handbook for students and researchers of hadith, the work epitomizes Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi's Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal. It covers the narrators found in the canonical Six Books and the additional works by their authors indexed in al-Mizzi's compilation, providing summarized biographical profiles supplemented with vocalizations and critical details.