al-Sari ibn Sahl
- Died
- 346 AH
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al-Sari ibn Sahl (d. 289 AH / 902 CE) was a hadith transmitter from Gundeshapur, best known for transmitting the hadith collection of Mujja‘ah ibn al-Zubayr al-‘Ataki.
Identity and Transmission
His full name was Abu Sahl al-Sari ibn Sahl ibn Kharban al-Jundisaburi al-Kharbani, taking his ancestral nisba from his grandfather Kharban. He studied under ‘Abd Allah ibn Rashid al-Jundisaburi, from whom he transmitted Nuskhat Mujja‘ah ibn al-Zubayr. He also transmitted the theological and linguistic inquiries of Nafi' ibn al-Azraq posed to Ibn 'Abbas on the authority of Yahya ibn Abi ‘Ubaydah Bahr ibn Farrukh al-Miski.
A number of notable traditionists transmitted from him, including Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani, ‘Abd al-Baqi ibn Qani‘, Abu al-Husayn ‘Abd al-Samad ibn ‘Ali al-Tasti al-Mukarrami, and Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Isma‘il al-Ubulli.
Critical Standing
In hadith criticism, al-Bayhaqi weakened him in his Sunan, stating that neither al-Sari nor his teacher ‘Abd Allah ibn Rashid could be relied upon as proof. In Lisan al-Mizan, Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani conjectured that he might be identical to the Baghdadi narrator al-Sari ibn ‘Asim, an accused hadith fabricator. However, other biographical authorities differentiated between the two, noting that al-Sari ibn ‘Asim died much earlier in 258 AH, whereas the students of al-Sari ibn Sahl—such as al-Tabarani and Ibn Qani‘—belonged to a later generation.
Death
According to al-Dhahabi, al-Sari ibn Sahl died in Fars in 289 AH / 902 CE.
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List of Works
Nuskhat al-Sari ibn Sahl is a hadith booklet (nuskha) comprising a collection of prophetic traditions received through the single transmission strand of ‘Abd Allah ibn Rashid al-Jundisaburi on the authority of Abu ‘Ubaydah Mujja‘ah ibn al-Zubayr al-‘Ataki.