al-Naal
- Died
- 659 AH
- Born in
- Baghdad
Muhammad ibn al-Anjab al-Naal (575–659 AH / 1180–1261 CE), known as al-Naal and titled Sa'in al-Din, was a Baghdadi Sufi scholar and hadith transmitter who relocated to Egypt .
Life and Education
Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Anjab ibn Abi Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Baghdadi al-Sufi, known as al-Naal (and also referred to as al-Ni'ali), was born in Baghdad at the end of Sha'ban 575 AH .
During his early studies in Baghdad, he heard hadith directly from his maternal grandfather, Hibat Allah ibn Ramadan ibn Shabib, as well as from Dha'in ibn Muhammad al-Zubayri . He also received general scholarly authorizations (ijazat) from several prominent scholars of his time, including Abd al-Mun'im ibn Abd Allah al-Farawi, Ubayd Allah ibn Shatil, Wafa' ibn al-Bahi (also recorded as Wafa' ibn al-Yamani), Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Uqayl, Mahmud ibn Nasr al-Sha''ar, Abu al-Mahasin Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Hamadhani, and Abu al-Sa'adat al-Qazzaz .
Scholarly Transmission and Standing
Al-Naal was described as a righteous figure and one of the notables among the Sufis . After settling in Egypt, he became the holder of the highest surviving hadith transmission chains (a'la man baqiya isnadan) in the Egyptian lands .
His hadith transmissions and teachers were collected in a teacher-compilation (Mashyakhat al-Ni'al), which was compiled for him by the hadith master Rashid al-Din Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Mundhiri (d. 643 AH) . A diverse group of scholars transmitted hadith from him, including Ibn Daqiq al-Eid, Abd al-Mu'min ibn Khalaf al-Dimyati, Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahim al-Qurashi, Sha'ban al-Irbili, Ali ibn Umar al-Wani, and Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Tanukhi .
Death
Al-Naal died in Egypt on 14 Rajab 659 AH (another report states the year 674 AH) .
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List of Works
Mashyakhat al-Ni'al is a hadith compilation that documents the teachers and narrations of a Baghdadi Sufi scholar. It gathers the narrations transmitted to him from his various contemporary shaykhs through direct hearing and certification.