Ibn Masi
- Died
- 369 AH
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Ibn Masi (274–369 AH / 887–880 CE) was a Baghdadi hadith transmitter and cloth merchant, known for his compilation Fawaid Ibn Masi (The Benefits of Ibn Masi) .
Name, Education, and Transmission
His full name was Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim ibn Ayyub ibn Masi al-Bazzaz al-Baghdadi . In Baghdad, he resided in Dar Ka'b . He heard hadith from a number of prominent authorities, including Abu Muslim al-Kajji, Yusuf ibn Yaqub al-Qadi, Abu Shu'ayb al-Harrani, Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn al-Bakhtari al-Hinna'i, Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Abi Shayba, Ahmad ibn Abi Awf al-Buzuri, al-Hasan ibn al-Kumayt al-Mawsili, Musa ibn Ishaq al-Ansari, Abu Barza al-Hasib, Khalaf ibn Amr al-Ukbari, and Ja'far ibn Ahmad ibn Asim al-Dimashqi .
A large number of scholars transmitted hadith on his authority, including Abu al-Husayn ibn Rizqawayh, Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris, Abu Ali ibn Shadhan, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Burqani, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir al-Daqqaq, Ahmad ibn Musa al-Rawshana'i, Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Faqih, and Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Bukayr . The last person to transmit from him was Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar al-Barmaki .
Scholarly Standing
Ibn Masi was widely regarded by biographical authorities as a reliable and precise transmitter (thiqah thabt) . Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris described him as a trustworthy figure of commendable conduct . When asked by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi to compare Ibn Masi with Ibn Malik al-Qati'i, al-Burqani favored Ibn Masi, stating that he was trustworthy and firm and that no criticism had been voiced against him, whereas Ibn Malik had faced criticism for narrating from sources other than his originals after his books were lost in a flood .
Death
Ibn Masi died in Rajab 369 AH in his mid-nineties . According to al-Burqani and Ibn Abi al-Fawaris, he died on the night of Wednesday, 14 Rajab 369 AH . Abu Talib Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Faqih reported that his death occurred on Wednesday, four nights before the end of Rajab 369 AH, and that he was buried at the Bab Harb cemetery .
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List of Works
Fawaid Ibn Masi is a collection of hadith narrations belonging to the fawa'id genre of hadith literature. The work compiles narrations received and transmitted alongside their chains of transmission (isnad), including material transmitted through authorities such as Abu Muslim al-Kajji (Ibrahim ibn Abd Allah).