al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayb
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- 302 AH
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Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayb (d. 302 AH / 914–915 CE) was a Baghdadi hadith transmitter whose transmissions are preserved in early compilations, notably his hadith collection Juz al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayb .
Lineage and Life
He was Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Musa ibn al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Ashayb al-Baghdadi . He belonged to a scholarly family from Baghdad; his grandfather was the judge and traditionist al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Ashayb, and his son was the judge Abu 'Imran Musa ibn al-Qasim .
During his life, al-Ashayb traveled outside Baghdad; he arrived in Isfahan accompanied by al-Muwaffaq, and he came to Damascus in 280 AH .
Hadith Transmission and Standing
Al-Ashayb transmitted hadith from authorities in Baghdad and other cities . His teachers included Ahmad al-Dawraqi, Ahmad ibn Mani', 'Amr ibn 'Uthman al-Himsi, al-Hasan ibn 'Arafa, Isma'il ibn Ziyad al-Ubulli (also cited as al-Ayli), 'Abbad ibn al-Walid al-Ghubari, and Majza'ah ibn Sufyan al-Bannani .
Those who transmitted from him include his son Abu 'Imran Musa, Abu al-Maymun ibn Rashid al-Dimashqi, Abu Bakr ibn Mahan, and Abu al-Qasim 'Ali ibn Ya'qub ibn Abi al-'Aqib . Later biographical assessments identify him as trustworthy (thiqa) . Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi originally split his biography into two entries under different lineages, which Ibn 'Asakir subsequently identified as an error referring to the same individual .
Death
Al-Ashayb died in 302 AH (914–915 CE) at the age of ninety . His death date is recorded by both Abu Sulayman ibn Zabr and Abu Muhammad al-Farghani .
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List of Works
Juz' al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib (The Hadith Booklet of al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib) is a classical collection of Prophetic hadiths and scholarly traditions compiled around specific transmissions. Preserved under the fuller title Juz' fihi min Hadith al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Ashayib, wa-min Hadith Zakariyya ibn Yahya al-Sijzi, Hadith al-Ifk wa-Ghayrih, the work encompasses varied subject matters across Islamic law, devotional practices, Quranic exegesis (tafsir), historical and biographical reports, and ethical conduct.