al-Shamukhi
- Died
- 443 AH
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Abu Ali al-Shamukhi (d. 443 AH / 1051 CE) was an Iraqi hadith transmitter and Quran reciter from Basra, best known for his compiled hadith booklet, Juz' al-Shamukhi (The Hadith Part of al-Shamukhi).
Identity and Family
His full name was al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Musa al-Shamukhi. His nisba al-Shamukhi is derived from Shamukh, a village located in the environs of Basra. He belonged to a family engaged in hadith scholarship; his son, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Baqi ibn al-Hasan al-Shamukhi (d. 485 AH), also transmitted hadith in Basra and Baghdad.
Scholarship and Transmission
Al-Shamukhi studied and transmitted hadith in Basra under scholars including Abu Bakr al-Asqati, Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Sayf, al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Qattan, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Abbas (an associate of Abu Khalifa).
A number of scholars narrated traditions from him, including Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Nakhshabi, who listed him in his dictionary of teachers (Mu'jam al-Shuyukh), Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Bakir al-Farisi, Abu al-Fadl Abd al-Malik ibn Ibrahim al-Hamadhani, and Muhammad ibn Idris al-Jaziri.
Al-Shamukhi's scholarly transmission is preserved in his collection titled Juz' al-Shamukhi (also transmitted as Ahadith al-Shamukhi 'an Shuyukhih), which opens with the narration: من غشنا فليس منا ("Whoever deceives us is not of us") and concludes with a tradition regarding the combining of fresh dates and melon.
Death
Al-Nakhshabi recorded seeing him alive during his second journey in the year 442 AH. Al-Shamukhi died in Basra in 443 AH (1051 CE).
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List of Works
Ahadith al-Shamukhi (also known as Ahadith al-Shamukhi 'an Shuyukhih or Juz' al-Shamukhi) is a hadith monograph (juz') consisting of prophetic traditions narrated directly from the compiler's teachers. The collection opens with the narration "Whoever deceives us is not of us" and concludes with a tradition regarding combining fresh dates and melon, encompassing various other narrations such as the hadith on the reward for mosque construction.