Ibn Duhaym
- Died
- 352 AH
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Ibrahim ibn Duhaym (d. 303 AH / 915 CE) was a Damascene hadith transmitter and scholar known for preserving Syrian hadith collections, including Fawaid Ibn Duhaym and his father's transmission of Musnad hadith al-Awzai .
Identity and Family Background
His full name was Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim ibn Maymun al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi . He was commonly known by the patronymic Ibn Duhaym after his father, Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim, the prominent Damascene judge and hadith authority whose laqab was Duhaym . His family produced several traditionists in Damascus, including his brother Amr and his nephew Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr .
Education and Transmission
Ibrahim ibn Duhaym studied under a circle of leading Levantine traditionists. Among his teachers were his father Duhaym, Hisham ibn Ammar, Muhammad ibn Awf, Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, Imran ibn Yazid ibn Abi Jamil, Muhammad ibn al-Wazir, and Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani .
A substantial body of students transmitted hadith from him. Prominent among them was al-Tabarani, who narrated extensively from him across his biographical dictionaries (al-Ma'ajim), as well as Ibn Adi, Ibn al-A'rabi, his nephew Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr ibn Duhaym, Abu Zur'a and Abu Bakr the sons of Abd Allah ibn Abi Dujana, and Jumah ibn al-Qasim . In addition to dictating his own hadith transmissions (amali), he was a primary transmitter of his father's four-part work Musnad hadith al-Awzai .
Scholarly Standing and Death
Ibrahim ibn Duhaym was recognized as an acceptable traditionist (muhaddith maqbul) by al-Dhahabi, and traditions transmitted through him were included by Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi in his compilation al-Ahadith al-Mukhtara .
According to the Damascene historian Ibn Zabr, Ibn Duhaym died in the month of al-Muharram in 303 AH (915 CE) .
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List of Works
Fawaid Ibn Duhaym is a classical collection of hadith transmissions and dictations, also bearing the title al-Majlis al-Awwal wa-al-Thani min Amali Ibrahim ibn Duhaym. Belonging to the amali and fawaid genres, the work preserves narrated prophetic traditions alongside their chains of transmission (isnad) recorded from various teachers.