Basim Faisal al-Jawabira
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Basim Faisal al-Jawabira is a contemporary scholar and professor of hadith and its disciplines, known for his academic teaching and critical editions of classical texts.
Academic Career and Scholarly Activity
Al-Jawabira, whose name also appears in sources as Basim ibn Faisal and Basim Faisal Ahmad al-Jawabira, has held academic teaching positions in higher education. He served as a professor in the Department of Sunnah at the College of Usul al-Din in Riyadh. He also served as a professor of hadith and its sciences at the University of Jordan.
His scholarly output comprises thematic studies on prophetic traditions as well as the verification and editing of early manuscript literature. He authored Marwiyyat al-la‘n fi al-sunnah (Narrations on Cursing in the Sunnah), an analytical compilation and examination of hadiths addressing the prohibition of cursing. In manuscript editing, his publications include critical editions of Ibn Abi Asim's al-Ahad wal-mathani and Abu Dawud al-Sijistani's biographical treatise on sibling narrators, al-Ruwat min al-ikhwah wal-akhawat.
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List of Works
Istidrak ma Fat min al-Ikhwa wal-Akhawat (Rectifying What Was Omitted Regarding Brothers and Sisters) is a contemporary hadith biographical work that supplements classical treatises on sibling narrators of hadith. It serves as a scholarly supplement identifying sibling narrators omitted from earlier foundational compilations, arranging entries alphabetically by the Arabic alphabet to document narrators alongside their siblings with biographical and transmission details.